Mike Huckabee

Prayer's important, not just as some kind of a metaphysical exercise, but I think it's a way to refresh one's own mind and motive. If you're praying, you're really looking beyond your own personal thoughts and the pressures that are around you.

American Politician

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

My mother was religious; she was knowledgeable about mythology and scriptures; she could tell the metaphysical nuances and make the story come to life with their deeper significance. The current generation is missing out on this.

Indian Scientist

Robert Eggers

What's so interesting to me about history is - what's interesting to anyone - is how humans are the same. Their belief systems were so different. They had different metaphysical truths than we do. And yet we're the same.

American Director

Simon Conway Morris

Evolution is true, it happens, it is the way the world is, and we too are one of its products. This does not mean that evolution does not have metaphysical implications; I remain convinced that this is the case.

British Scientist

Tim Allen

The world's a mean place. It's unfair, then it's fair. It's hateful, then it's loving. It's a very peculiar place on philosophical and metaphysical and religious levels.

American Comedian

Friedrich Nietzsche

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

German Philosopher

Aldous Huxley

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

English Novelist

Neale Donald Walsch

I think in metaphysical terms, I would call that increasing the speed of the vibration of life.

American Author

Arthur Koestler

One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.

Hungarian Novelist

Alyssa Milano

I think we're in the time when the metaphysical world is so interesting.

American Actress

Used when discussing concepts that extend beyond the physical world and our sensory experiences.

Beyond Senses

Often found in texts dealing with spirituality and questions about existence beyond life.

Spiritual Context

Relates to deep philosophical topics, especially about the nature and structure of reality.

Philosophical Studies

Think of topics that challenge your understanding of existence or the essence of things.

Complex Concepts

Implies discussions or debates are theoretical without practical application.

Not Practical

Encourages thinking about ideas that are not tangible or immediately understandable.

Abstract Thinking

Refers to a style of poetry that combines complex ideas with emotional intensity.

Literary Style

Connects to the works of certain British poets from the early 17th-century.

Historical Poets

 I've got this experience, I'm in the world. I can't be just a bunch of cells." Well, people used to believe there was a life force to be living, and we now know that's really not true at all. And there's really no evidence, other than that people just disbelieve that cells can do what they do. So some people have fallen into the pit of metaphysical dualism,

Jeff Hawkins: How brain...

 it up I think there's a kind of metaphysical dimension that speed becomes a way of rolling ourselves off from the bigger deeper questions we fill our heads with distraction with busyness so that we don't have to ask am i well am i happy are my children growing up right are politicians making good decisions on my behalf

Praising slowness - Carl...

 But why is it so hard to slow down? I think there are various reasons. One is that speed is fun, you know, speed is sexy. It's all that adrenaline rush. It's hard to give it up. I think there's a kind of metaphysical dimension -- that speed becomes a way of walling ourselves off from the bigger, deeper questions.

Carl Honore: In praise...

 Christianity offered a metaphysical beauty of virtue and an eternal heaven that could not be destroyed as Rome had. After the fall of Rome, early medieval theologians turned away from physical beauty, rejecting it in favor of inner-beauty. They maintained that while the physical world was temporary,

Distorting Madonna in...

 Our certainty that we have a metaphysical, subjective experience may come from one of the brain’s models, a cut-corner description of what it means to process information in a focused and deep manner. Scientists have already begun trying to figure out how the brain creates that self model.

What is consciousness? -...

 and at this point they tend to go metaphysical, say, well, maybe the set of laws that describes our universe, it's just one set of laws and it describes one part of reality, but maybe every consistent set of laws describes another part of reality,

Why does the universe...

 something metaphysical I figure it has the power to transcend difference and work its magic so our theme today here is dream I can't think of a bigger dream than dr. King's vision of the table of brotherhood and it's not a metaphor I've

Gastronomy and the...

 the ground with a neon sign on it saying I'm important by the way it took work it took knowledge and that I think has to translate into some sense of of at least metaphysical ownership what if just say if you know Egyptians had invaded

Egypt Wants Treasures...

 Time is this extraordinary thing that we never can really wrap our heads around. But in a very unique and special way, I believe these photographs begin to put a face on time. They embody a new metaphysical visual reality.

The passing of time,...

 So we don't have to assume these principles as separate metaphysical postulates. They follow from the fundamental theory.

Metaphysical