Fritjof Capra Quotes

There are times when I catch myself believing that there is such a thing as something; which is separate from something else.

Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.

I believe that nothing can be more abstract, more unreal, than what we actually see. We know that all we can see of the objective world, as human beings, never really exists as we see and understand it. Matter exists, of course, but has no intrinsic meaning of its own, such as the meanings that we attach to it. We can know only that a cup is a cup, that a tree is a tree.

Because our consciousness is tied to the physical manifestation of reality, we are tied to the belief in separation.

Metaphysics is a cobweb that the mind weaves around things.

Another problem of fragmentation is that thought divides itself from feeling and from the body. Thought is said to be the mind; we have the notion that it is something abstract or spiritual or immaterial. Then there is the body, which is very physical. And we have emotions, which are perhaps somewhere in between. The idea is that they are all different. That is, we think of them as different. And we experience them as different because we think of them as different.

The philosophers have always given truth a bill of divorce, by separating what nature has joined together and vice versa.

We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space - how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!

Now I realize that it isn't the miracle that creates the believer. Instead, we are all believers. We believe that the illusion of the material world is completely real. That belief is our only prison. It prevents us from making the journey into the unknown.

Everyone has been a witness sometime - It doesn't change it if you don't believe.

Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real.

They say that nameless things change constantly—that names fix them in place like pins.

I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic Reality.

Ela acreditava em anjo e, porque acreditava, eles existiam": "She believed in angels, and, because she believed, they existed

In the last analysis, then, we believe that we all know and think about and talk about the same world because we believe our PERCEPTS are possessed by us in common

Why is a picture of something real eventually more exciting than the thing itself?

Delusion: belief said to be false by someone who does not share it.

It is interesting to observe how real the object remains, in spite of all abstractions.

Because you continue to inhabit and believe your metaphors, you cannot see what is true.

Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.

The observer is the observed.

How can you expect me to believe that?""whether you believe it or not does not change the nature of truth

I am beginning to believe that nothing is quite so uncertain as facts. (Edward Curtis)

Inside each of us resides the truth, I began, the absolute truth. But sometimes the truth is hidden in a hall of mirrors. Sometimes we believe we are viewing the real thing, when in fact we are viewing a facsimile, a distortion.

It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart.