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• Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Simple, Men, Clothes

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.

  Woody Allen

  Witty, Atheist, Philosophy

  Love and Death (1975 film)

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• It's so hard to believe in anything anymore, you know what I mean? It's like, religion, you really can't take it seriously, 'cause it seems so mythological, and seems so arbitrary; and then on the other hand, science is just pure empiricism, and by virtue of its method, it excludes metaphysics. I guess I wouldn't believe in anything if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Believe, Humor

  "A Wild and Crazy Guy". Comedy album by Steve Martin, 1978.

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• People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of science or books of metaphysics. The reason is very simple; it is merely that the novel is more true than they are.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Book, Reading, Simple

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

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• The great question in life is the suffering we cause, and the most ingenious metaphysics do not justify the man who has broken the heart that loved him.

  Benjamin Constant

  Heart, Men, Broken

  Benjamin Constant, Margaret Mauldon, Patrick Coleman (2001). “Adolphe”, p.79, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The hymns of David, the plays of Shakespeare, the metaphysics of Descartes, the crimes of Borgia, the virtues of Antonine, the atheism of yesterday and the materialism of today, were all emanations of divine thought, doing their appointed work. It was the duty of the church to deal with them all, not as though they existed through a power hostile to the deity, but as instruments of the deity to work out his unrevealed ends.

  Henry Adams

  Play, Hymns, Yesterday

  Henry Adams (2014). “Esther”, p.5, Lulu Press, Inc

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• In the deep night of metaphysics, all cats look black.

  Terry Eagleton

  Cat, Night, Black

  Terry Eagleton (1981). “Walter Benjamin, Or, Towards a Revolutionary Criticism”, New Left Books

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• Science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics; or, the state of science is an index of our self-knowledge.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Men, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.208, Harvard University Press

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• Mathematics is the only true metaphysics.

  Lord Kelvin

  Mathematics

  "The Life of William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs, Volume 2" by Silvanus Phillips Thompson, (p. 1124), 1910.

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• We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Philosophy, Simple, Christianity

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “Charles Spurgeon: Lectures to My Students, Volume 1”, p.83, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience which is God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Giving, Religion, Liberty

  Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India”

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• In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend their lives inside rooms. It is an indoor philosophy.

  Edward Abbey

  Philosophy, People, Earth

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.11, RosettaBooks

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• Metaphysics is a cobweb that the mind weaves around things.

  Edward Abbey

  Mind, Cobwebs

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.11, RosettaBooks

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• Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible.

  H. L. Mencken

  Cynical, Agnostic, Incredibles

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• Ivan and Misha is the great American Russian Novel told as Chekhov would tell it, in stories of delicacy, humanity, and insight. From Kiev to Manhattan, Brighton Beach and Bellevue, Michael Alenyikov lays out a series of compelling arguments for brotherhood between brothers, between lovers, between men from an old country. Alenyikov confronts big subjects—illness and madness, sex and love in the age of AIDS, old and new world values, a fallen wall, the metaphysics of survival, the march of generations.

  Carolyn Cooke

  Country, Beach, Brother

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• We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel. Man's fall, his need of a new birth, forgiveness through atonement, and salvation as the result of faith, these are our battle-ax and weapons of war.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Philosophy, War, Fall

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “Charles Spurgeon: Lectures to My Students, Volume 1”, p.83, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• The metaphysics of substance. The strange feeling which comes over us when we sense: this is skin - this is bone - all in a single vision that is completely unearthly. The dreaminess of our existence mixed at the same time with the indescribably sweet illusion of reality.

  Max Beckmann

  Sweet, Reality, Feelings

  Stephan Lackner, Max Beckmann (1983). “Max Beckmann”, Crown Pub

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• Metaphysics keeps surviving its obituaries.

  Mason Cooley

  Obituary, Surviving

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• To gauge the understanding and insight that metaphysics provides is to ask whether, in the final analysis, it helps us to cope with our world and harmonize our existence with nature, humanity, and ourselves, and leads to greater freedom and self-realization. Metaphysics is only the beginning. The end is human progress.

  Rudolph Rummel

  Our World, Self, Understanding

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• To bracket form and finality out of one's investigations as far as reason allows is a matter of method, but to deny their reality altogether is a matter of metaphysics.

  David Bentley

  Reality, Matter, Reason

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• I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.

  Mae West

  Sarcastic, Dream, Witty

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• It is through truth & non-violence that I can have some glimpse of God. Truth & non-violence are my God. They are the obverse and reverse of the same coin.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religion, Glimpse, Coins

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• Perfection is the exclusive attribute of God, and it is indescribable, untranslatable. I do believe that it is possible for human beings to become perfect, even as God is perfect. It is necessary for all of us to aspire after that perfection but when that blessed state is attained, it become indescribable, indefinable.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Blessed, Believe, Perfect

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.58, A&C Black

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• Of all the animal creations of God, main is the only animal who has been created in order that he may know his Maker. Man's aim is life is not therefore to add from day to day to his material prospects and to his material possessions, but his predominant calling is, from day to day to come nearer to his own Maker.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Animal, Order

  Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.210, Penguin Books India

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• We are merely instruments of the Almighty's will and therefore ignorant of what helps us forward and what acts as an impediment. We must thus rest satisfied with the knowledge only of the means and if these are pure, we can fearlessly leave the end to take care of itself.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Ignorant, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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