Metaphysically Speaking Quotes & Sayings

A good leader sets the right goals, gets things moving, and helps us to discover that we already know what to do. — Donella Meadows

Had Satan not set himself in opposition to God ... there would have been no need for God to send His Son to the cross. — Billy Graham

God, possessing supreme and infinite wisdom, acts in the most perfect manner, not only metaphysically, but also morally speaking, and ... with respect to ourselves, we can say that the more enlightened and informed we are about God's works, the more we will be disposed to find them excellent and in complete conformity with what we might have desired. — Gottfried Leibniz

Ballet companies have their ups and downs, just like the rest of us. — Robert Gottlieb

Successful people do the things that unsuccessful people won't do. — Jeff Olson

It is sometimes easier to form a party than to attain by degrees the head of a party already formed. — Luc De Clapiers

Critical analysis tells us not just that injustice exists, but how and why power plays take place historically and specifically, not simply as the general order of things: how injustice exists changeably rather than inevitably, politically rather than metaphysically - how our lives could have been different. Critical analysis tells us, colloquially speaking, not just what's wrong but also what we can do practically to respond. Complaint, in contrast, tells us what's wrong - unjust, racist, manipulated, sexist, and so on - but tells us nothing new about how the world can be otherwise, how we can change the world, resist injustice, do justice. — John Forester

I understand, I am just beginning, I am just beginning to understand — Anne Rice

The library made me feel safe, as if every question had an answer and there was nothing to be afraid of, as long as I could sort through another volume. — Dee Williams

Retire? Retire from What? Life? I will only retire when I am dead! — Alfred Eisenstaedt

This weekend on The History Channel, someone digs through old plastic junk ("It's a Dukes of Hazzard wastebasket!"), someone else tries to sell a doll head ("I used to take the heads off the bodies, and I kept the heads") . . . and Larry the Cable Guy taste-tests Tabasco sauce ("I can't feel my dadgum tongue!"). The History Channel. What the hell happened to us? Jimmy Kimmel Live4 — Donald R. Prothero

It is an undoubted truth that the neck and throat of a highbred woman are incomparably more beautiful than in the woman of lower origin. Blood will tell; there is no disputing it. — Harriet Hubbard Ayer

And if we never slept together or otherwise 'realized' our relationship, I would leave Spain with this gorgeous possibility intact, and in my memory could always ponder the relationship I might have had in the flattering light of the subjunctive. — Ben Lerner

She believes that everyone we meet influences us, that we need to hear their stories to learn more about ourselves. — Gemma Liviero

Why are there organized beings? Why is there something rather than nothing? Here again, I fully understand a scientist who refuses to ask it. He is welcome to tell me that the question does not make sense. Scientifically speaking, it does not. Metaphysically speaking, however, it does. Science can account for many things in the world; it may some day account for all that which the world of phenomena actually is. But why anything at all is, or exists, science knows not, precisely because it cannot even ask the question. — Etienne Gilson

2007 was a long time ago, and events do change over long periods of time. — Rand Paul