Metaphysics Quotes · Page 6

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

— Michel de Montaigne

Fractional Multiplicity' allows for a minute amount of our energy to be present in all places at all times.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

“One can never "fall" in love, you must rise to it's level of consciousness. Love is not a feeling, it's a state…

— T.C. Carrier

The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear - a literal truth in physics, and a metaphorical one in metaphysics.

— Iain McGilchrist

“Oh Time, you arise with parting! [О Время, ты от разлуки!] - Vladislav Khalyavkin, The Operator”

— Vladislav Khalyavkin

“Everything in the seen world is a dim reflection or representation of the unseen world.”

— Dan Pedersen

“The universe will use any vehicle and any medium to communicate with us. Our job is to be alert and to listen.”

— Elaine Seiler

Metaphysics must be based on what exists, for it has the task of explicating it.

— Franz Grillparzer

I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of clay in…

— Anonymous

The unrest which keeps the never stopping clock of metaphysics going is the thought that the nonexistence of this world is just…

— William James

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

— John Adams

I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The moral truth here is obvious: anyone who feels that the interests of a blastocyst just might supersede the interests of a…

— Sam Harris

If the aim of physical theories is to explain experimental laws, theoretical physics is not an autonomous science; it is subordinate to…

— Pierre Duhem

“Heidegger’s concept for the kind of being we ourselves are is Dasein. Literally it means ‘being-there’.We are the sort of beings who…

— Lars Fr. H. Svendsen

“...knowing about your past lives is worse than useless if that knowledge doesn't bring you some kind of positive change or healing.”

— Lianne Downey

“In the pragmatist, streetwise climate of advanced postmodern capitalism, with its scepticism of big pictures and grand narratives, its hard-nosed disenchantment with…

— Terry Eagleton

“When one commits to a spiritual teacher, one automatically benefits from the energetic field of that teacher. All one has to do…

— Donna Goddard

The metaphysics of substance. The strange feeling which comes over us when we sense: this is skin - this is bone -…

— Max Beckmann

“I now turn to a *subjective* consideration that belongs here; yet I can give even less distinctness to it than to the…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Liberty, according to my metaphysics, is an intellectual quality, an attribute that belongs not to fate nor chance. Neither possesses it, neither…

— John Adams

The idea that the universe itself is physically structured around hierarchy was sort of an integration of earlier science and theology that…

— Marilynne Robinson

“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

“we can only re-establish metaphysics today by returning to realism pure and simple.”

— Étienne Gilson

Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.

— Huston Smith

Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

— Carl Sagan

“People believe in miracles, precisely because they don’t believe in miracles.”

— Syed Buali Gillani

I think metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life; otherwise forget it.

— Robert M. Pirsig

Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible.

— H. L. Mencken

“Drama does not just walk into our lives. Either we create it, invite it, or associate with it.”

— Brandi L. Bates

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of another boy.

— Woody Alle

“Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a 30,000 page menu and no food.”

— Robert M. Pirsing

Metaphysics is the clearing house for all fundamental philosophical problems.

— Joseph Alexander Leighton

“metaphysics has always struck me as a prolonged form of latent insanity.”

— Fernando Pessoa

If you're trained in metaphysics, you don't see the world as distinct from yourself. You are one with the world.

— Marianne Williamson

Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment. "Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals" (1785)

— Immanuel Kant

That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.

— Boris Pasternak

“We may hop when the gods say 'frog,' but we still get to choose how fast and how high.”

— Katherine Lampe

Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived.

— Alfred North Whitehead