Supernatural Quotes - page 10

The ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way that my mathematical ideas did. So I took them seriously. (John Forbes Nash)
What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could say. View quote
Haruki Murakami
Perhaps I was too dumb, or just too interested in cricket or in girls, to ask myself any questions about religion. If I had not been, I might have, inevitably, asked myself questions that have troubled skeptics and unbelievers for as long as men and women have been skeptical or have lacked belief. "Is there really no God? And if there really is no supernatural dimension to the universe, why have so many people throughout history and in so many different cultures thought there was?" View quote
Jonathan Miller
Falling in love is the one illogical adventure, the one thing of which we are tempted to think as supernatural, in our trite and reasonable world. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
Humility consists of knowing that in this world the whole soul, not only what we term the ego in its totality, but also the supernatural part of the soul, which is God present in it, is subject to time and to the vicissitudes of change. View quote
Simone Weil
Among those in whom the supernatural part of themselves has not been awakened, the atheists are right and the believers wrong. View quote
Simone Weil
Humility consists of knowing that in this world the whole soul, not only what we term the ego in its totality, but also the supernatural part of the soul, which is God present in it, is subject to time and to the vicissitudes of change. There must be absolutely acceptance of the possibility that everything material in us should be destroyed. But we must simultaneously accept and repudiate the possibility that the supernatural part of the soul should disappear. View quote
Simone Weil
Religion in so far as it is a source of consolation is a hindrance to true faith ; and in this sense atheism is a purification. I have to be an atheist with that part of myself which is not made for God. Among those in whom the supernatural part of themselves has not been awakened, the atheists are right and the believers wrong. View quote
Simone Weil
For those who relish speculation regarding the future, the tale of supernatural horror provides an interesting field. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
I think it's important to realize that we're all just human. I mean, nobody is supernatural. (Amy Lee)
I think people are just intrigued with the supernatural. I mean, I know that I am. It's something that I find very interesting. View quote
Jennifer Love Hewitt
This evil, this concept, it comes from disappointment, from bitterness! Don't you see? Children of Satan! Children of God! Is this the only question you bring to me, is this the only power that obsesses you, so that you must make us gods and devils yourself when the only power that exists is inside ourselves? How could you believe in these old fantastical lies, these myths, these emblems of the supernatural? View quote
Anne Rice
I tell you, we would be hard put to determine what is more evil -- religion or the pure idea. The intervention of the supernatural or the elegant abstract solution! Both have bathed this earth in suffering; both have brought the human race literally and figuratively to its knees. View quote
Anne Rice
Faith makes us live by showing us that life, although it is dependent upon reason, has its well spring and source of power elsewhere, in something supernatural and miraculous. View quote
Miguel de Unamuno
When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become supernatural. The hypothetical and the theoretical can become literal. View quote
J. J. Abrams
By such an hypothesis no physical laws are violated; neither is it necessary to invoke what is commonly called the supernatural. View quote
William Crookes
SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in the doings of spooks. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
I'm drawn to doing interesting stuff at work. And some of the time with the supernatural, you get to do really crazy, fun things. But I'm not a big genre-fantasy gal, particularly. View quote
Anna Paquin
It may sound fantastic to link the term "realism" with Conan; but as a matter of fact - his supernatural adventures aside - he is the most realistic character I ever evolved. View quote
Robert E. Howard
The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity. (E. O. Wilson)
Death does not trouble me. I have no fear of supernatural punishments, of course, nor could I enjoy an eternal life in which there would be nothing left for me to do, the task of living having been accomplished. View quote
B. F. Skinner
There is no separate supernatural realm: all phenomena are part of one natural process of evolution. There is no basic cleavage between science and religion; they are both organs of evolving humanity. View quote
Julian Huxley
All around us lies what we neither understand nor use. Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us confine ourselves to that till the lesson be learned; let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural. I never see any of these things but I long to get away and lie under a green tree and let the wind blow on me. There is marvel and charm enough in that for me. View quote
Margaret Fuller
Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural. View quote
Margaret Fuller