Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Ivan and Misha is the great American Russian Novel told as Chekhov would tell it, in stories of delicacy, humanity, and insight.… — Carolyn Cooke Copy Share Image
A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of… — William James Copy Share Image
My personal, metaphysical belief is Vedanta, which is that ultimately there is a singular consciousness. It's like a Hindu metaphysics, that basically… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
To create a good philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an… — F. H. Bradley Copy Share Image
“For one to define and understand the nature of the universe, one must first understand the nature of the force behind its… — Reid A. Ashbaucher Copy Share Image
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom, as William Blake said. Yet only if it is the excess of… — John Lars Zwerenz Copy Share Image
“Q. Surely it is easier to be objective about other people than about oneself? A. No, it is more difficult. If you become… — P.D. Ouspensky 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
“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
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 metaphysicians of Tlön are not looking for truth, nor even for an approximation of it; they are after a kind of… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“Inevitably it follows that anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes an authority or established convention': a… — Nicholas Tharcher Copy Share Image
Knapsack of the Metaphysicians.- Those who boast so mightily of the scientificality of their metaphysics should receive no answer; it is enough… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
My aim is to be understood by everyone. I reject the 'depth' that people demand nowadays, into which you can never descend… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
The way towards 'wisdom' or towards 'freedom' is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition of metaphysics. — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
