“What is more precious: a thousand answers derived from one question? Or, one answer…from a thousand questions?” — G. F. Smith Copy Share Image
“Perception is the illusion that gives all matter mass," The Flight of the Eagle A.K. Luthienne” — A.K. Luthienne Copy Share Image
Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it. — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken, is a science, or complement of sciences, exclusively occupied with mind. — Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet Copy Share Image
“Behind every effect there is a cause. You can never eliminate an effect without first understanding its cause.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
No science can be more secure than the unconscious metaphysics which tacitly it presupposes. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“we can only re-establish metaphysics today by returning to realism pure and simple.” — Étienne Gilson Copy Share Image
“We are taught to fear the unknown, but what if the unknown is whatever we want it to be? What if the… — Natalia Beshqoy Copy Share Image
“For Heidegger, the central question concerning Being is not the everyday activities or practices of human beings, but rather what such activities… — Barbara Bolt Copy Share Image
My trust is solely in God. And I trust men only because I trust God. If I had no God to rely… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The exposé, the compassion and outrage, of documentary fueled by the dedication to reform has shaded over into combinations of exoticism, tourism,… — Martha Rosler Copy Share Image
“There are mystical, unbreakable bonds between all members of the natural world including humans and animals. Whether or not we remember or… — Elizabeth Eiler Copy Share Image
There's a limit to my patience with anything that smacks of metaphysics. I squirm at the mention of "mind expansion" or "warm… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
Metaphysics attempts to discover the ultimate nature of reality, and in this sense, the innerspace of science fiction is metaphysical fiction. — Kate Wilhelm Copy Share Image
“Knowlede is power and Absolute Knowledge is Absolute Power or the Power of Truth, which is constantly shaping events and circumstances to… — Matthew A. Petti Copy Share Image
The metaphysics of substance. The strange feeling which comes over us when we sense: this is skin - this is bone -… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
“What is most remarkable about the philosophy of Kant, in my opinion, is the wide range of topics on which his thoughts… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“The purpose of this critique of pure speculative reason consists in the attempt to change the old procedure of metaphysics, and to… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Historically mystics have claimed that for a true understanding of reality metaphysics is too “scientific”. Metaphysics is not reality. Metaphysics is names… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“I now turn to a *subjective* consideration that belongs here; yet I can give even less distinctness to it than to the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Liberty, according to my metaphysics, is an intellectual quality, an attribute that belongs not to fate nor chance. Neither possesses it, neither… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The idea that the universe itself is physically structured around hierarchy was sort of an integration of earlier science and theology that… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us. — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
