Groundwork Of The Metaphysics Quotes & Sayings

It was one of the most ancient terrors, the one that meant that no sooner had mankind learned to walk on two legs than it dropped to its knees. — Terry Pratchett

And one thing we know is real: horror. It is so real, in fact, that we cannot be sure it could not exist without us. Yes, it needs our imaginations and our consciousness, but it does not ask or require our consent to use them. — Thomas Ligotti

Only a powerful soul can offer love. Only a powerful soul can afford to be humble. If we are weak, then we become selfish. If we are empty, we take, but if we are filled, we automatically give to all. That is our nature. — Brahma Kumaris

Like one who, on a lonely road,
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And, having once turned round, walks on,
And turns no more his head;
Because he knows a frightful fiend
Doth close behind him tread. -
Coleridge's Ancient Mariner. — Mary Shelley

You know that family is going to be there for you no matter what. My dad gave me a freakin' kidney! — Sarah Hyland

Last night, I thought we were going to begin."
"Begin what?"
She let out a soft sigh and said, "You know, begin"
His voice held a smile when he replied, "We did, Abby. Couldn't you tell?"
She pulled his pillow to her chest and whispered, "Not really."
"Then you weren't paying much attention" he muttered. — Kristen Ashley

...we eat not so much for pleasure as we do to ward off an awful feeling...The fear of hunger is deeply rooted, and food manufacturers know well how to push the buttons that evoke this fear. — Michael Moss

There has been an effect of business rap on the output of today's rap music. But I don't think that's the modern day rapper's fault. — M.I.A.

Like Indiana Jones, I don't like snakes - though that might lead some to ask why I'm in politics. — Theresa May

Perhaps, all these years, the historiographers had been unwilling to recognize history as a spiral, perhaps because a spiral was so difficult to describe. Easier to photograph the spiral from the top, easier to flatten the spring into a coil. — Anthony Burgess

She knows her flesh parents are in the stands somewhere. Knows what they're saying, sees the gestures and expressions. Dad trying to use old college logic to make sense of it all. Mom wearing the haunted stare that means she was put on earth strictly to suffer. They're all around us, parents in the thousands, afraid of our intensity. This is what frightens them. We really believe. They bring us up to believe but when we show them true belief they call out psychiatrists and police. We know who God is. This makes us crazy in the world. — Don DeLillo

Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times. — Rutherford B. Hayes