Metaphysical Quest Quotes & Sayings

The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The basic fallacy , taking precedence over all specific metaphysical fallacies, is to interpret meaning on the model of truth. — Hannah Arendt

When I was young, I never thought I was going to be a writer! I was academically orientated and active at sports, but I didn't have one creative bone in my body. — Amish Tripathi

This has been a most wonderful evening. Gertrude has said things tonight it will take her 10 years to understand. — Alice B. Toklas

I like bossy girls. I always have. I like people filled with life. — Amy Poehler

Welcome to my garage! This is where I go to get away from the honey-do list. — Bill Engvall

I was a pretty terrible lawyer. A really, really terrible lawyer. — Elizabeth Strout

Anything you can imagine, you can put on film. — Peter Jackson

For William Cecil and others in Elizabeth's Council, whose sense of Catholic conspiracy and threat governed their political thinking, England's security lay in the creation of a united and Protestant British Isles, which could stand alone, ready to resist invaders. Divine providence had set the islands apart from the rest of the world by encircling seas, 'a little world by itself'. — Susan Brigden

...once you express your will, the Universe will conspire with each and every atom to help you reach your destiny. — Katy Tackes

If our nation is to rebuild opportunity for future generations, it will require our elected leaders to realize that their responsibility lies not with their political party, but rather with the American people that they have been chosen to represent. — Ami Bera

I have an older sister who sounds, unfortunately, exactly like me, and we sound like our mother did. — Jill Abramson

The problem is that taxes aren't used efficiently. — Mian Muhammad Mansha

A detailed
analysis of the most famous novels would show, in different perspectives each time, that the essence of
the novel lies in this perpetual alteration, always directed toward the same ends, that the artist makes in
his own experience. Far from being moral or even purely formal, this alteration aims, primarily, at unity
and thereby expresses a metaphysical need. The novel, on this level, is primarily an exercise of the
intelligence in the service of nostalgic or rebellious sensibilities. It would be possible to study
this quest for unity in the French analytical novel and in Melville, Balzac, Dostoievsky, or Tolstoy — Albert Camus

It's not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?" - Henry David Thoreau — Brian P. Moran

The soul contains few secrets and longings which cannot be sensibly discussed, analyzed, and polled. Solitude, the very condition which sustained the individual against and beyond his society, has become technically impossible. Logical and linguistic analysis demonstrate that the old metaphysical problems are illusory problems; the quest for the "meaning" of things can be reformulated as the quest for the meaning of words, and the established universe of discourse and behavior can provide perfectly adequate criteria for the answer. — Herbert Marcuse

Well, actually, I'm a bisexual lesbian in a man's body ... but it's more complicated than that. — Tony Parker

The minute anyone makes you feel weird and non-included or not supported, you know, either beat it or tell them to beat it. — Amy Poehler

The positive thing is that today we can realize that a Mexican film it is positioned in the top 5 of the box office during more than one month and that Mexicans are taking into consideration that Mexican films can be enjoyed with the family, instead of going to see Transformers and that our films looks like something that are necessary to support. — Alfonso Herrera

Hey, pretty damn smart aren't you? You made it just ugly enough. inconspicuous. Nobody looks twice."
"I have to admit, that was a hard one for me. I think one of the designers had a breakdown. Cried for an hour — J.D. Robb