If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without. — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct. — F. H. Bradley Copy Share Image
It's progress I think, that science has joined philosophy, metaphysics & religion as subjects drunk people argue about in bars. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
“What is this slow blue dream of living, and this fevered death by dreaming?” — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. — William James Copy Share Image
“In the same way, any ethical system which aspires to be true ethics and to bear a normative and teleological character, not… — Herman Bavinck Copy Share Image
The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics; or, the state of science… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“If we accept that Metaphysics studies the origin and structure of the world from beyond the natural or the physical to the… — Tasha Heart Copy Share Image
“Everyone's life changes when they meet their Obi-Wan & their Yoda, or their Morpheus & their Oracle; those who help remove the veil.” — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
If our previous analyses are correct, they all point to the same conclusion, that metaphysical adventures are doomed to fail when their… — Etienne Gilson Copy Share Image
An ideal and flawless freedom, "complete freedom", enabling without disabling, is I believe an oxymoron in metaphysics as much as it is… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
“Indeed neither life nor science bothers about "essences"-they leave "essences" to metaphysics, which is neither life nor science.” — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
“He is romantic—romantic,” he repeated. “And that is very bad—very bad. . . . Very good, too,” he added. “But is he?”… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
A system of philosophy, or metaphysics, is a union of a world view and a life view in one harmonious, complete, integral… — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
“We also find *physics*, in the widest sense of the word, concerned with the explanation of phenomena in the world; but it… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
The business and design of the Royal Society is: To improve the knowledge of naturall things, and all useful Arts, Manufactures, Mechanic… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
In the case of Anathem, most of the research had to do with philosophy and metaphysics. Reading this sort of thing has… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Comrades in the struggle! The position of modern man is not merely lamentable; one might even say that there is no condition,… — Victor Pelevin Copy Share Image
Metaphysics is the study of how to shift the self. How to get outside the self-reflection and to just gaze with awe… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Metaphysics is the clearing house for all fundamental philosophical problems. — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of another boy. — Woody Alle Copy Share Image
“Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a 30,000 page menu and no food.” — Robert M. Pirsing Copy Share Image
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment. "Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals" (1785) — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“metaphysics has always struck me as a prolonged form of latent insanity.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
If you're trained in metaphysics, you don't see the world as distinct from yourself. You are one with the world. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it. — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“We may hop when the gods say 'frog,' but we still get to choose how fast and how high.” — Katherine Lampe Copy Share Image
Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
In our present state of degeneration it is through the skin that metaphysics must be made to re-enter our minds. — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
To create a good philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Descartes said, "I think, therefore I am." I say, "I do not think, that is why I exist." — Taisen Deshimaru Copy Share Image
When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“A biblical metaphysics implies a biblical theory of knowledge and a biblical ethic.” — Henry R. Van Til Copy Share Image
To create a healthy philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
