Quotes about Metaphysics
Agere sequitur esse.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
For nothing comes from nothing; nothing ever could.
- Norman Geisler
But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
- Aristotle
This speciously deep thought was to haunt Christian metaphysics: that love without pain and guilt remains simply a joke, a game.
- Hans Urs von Balthasar
Spirit is the real and eternal; matter is the unreal and temporal.
- Mary Baker Eddy
How comes the world to be here at all instead of the nonentity which might be imagined in its place? ... from nothing to being there is no logical bridge.
- William James
This is the basic principle that underlies most religion, psychology, philosophy, and metaphysics. This law says, "Whatever you believe, with conviction, becomes your reality.
- Brian Tracy
The mind does not exist unless leagued with the soul
- Herman Melville
But as the mind does not exist unless leagued with the soul
- Herman Melville
God is non-man, heaven is non-earth, soul is non-body, virtue is non-profit. A is non-A, perception is non-sensory, knowledge is non-reason. Their definitions are not acts of defining, but of wiping out.
- Ayn Rand
These philosophers, then, whom we see not undeservedly exalted above the rest in fame and glory, have seen that no material body is God, and therefore they have transcended all bodies in seeking for God.
- St. Augustine
But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.
- Aristotle