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...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.
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Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.
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See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled,Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head!Philosophy, that lean'd on Heav'n before,Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more.Physic of Metaphysic begs defence,And Metaphysic calls for aid on Sense!See Mystery to Mathematics fly!
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At the heart of my metaphysic there is the ultimate question and at the heart of the universe there is the ultimate questioner.
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In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.
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When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.
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I study myself more than any other subject; it is my metaphysic, and my physic.
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...reality is always plural and mutable.
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...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.
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We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time it is carrying us about...It is the human nervous system itself.
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We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of appreciating sound and rhythm, we would never boast of knowing music. The infant is music itself.
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Can all this just be an accident? Or could there be some alien intelligence behind it?
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Metaphysics is a science.
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I only want to give a metaphysic for my music.
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It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual.
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So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world.