Metaphysics Quotes · Page 5

Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes.

— Bertrand Russell

A long time ago, Descartes sad, “I think, therefore I am.” But if you are not thinking, what?

— Seungsahn

One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.

— James Russell Lowell

The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.

— Wilhelm Dilthey

“Always beware of turning religion into metaphysics: Morality is its essence.”

— Voltaire

“Mentor Me: ...the crossroads and convergence of where science, metaphysics, religion, and utopian society intersect.”

— Ken Poirot

“What believer of faith among us can claim to understand the exact mechanistic structure of a world created by a god/God?”

— Kevin Michel

“A quick enlightenment tends to do more harm than good. Wise may easily become unwise.”

— Iva Kenaz

Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopedia, or the treatise on metaphysics,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have found by experience that man makes his plans to be upset by God, but, at the same time, where the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

That Hegel is a metaphysician, and that he thinks metaphysics is fundamental to philosophy, is plain enough from his definition of philosophy.

— Frederick C. Beiser

The way towards 'wisdom' or towards 'freedom' is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition of metaphysics.

— Mircea Eliade

“Indeed neither life nor science bothers about "essences"-they leave "essences" to metaphysics, which is neither life nor science.”

— Alfred Korzybski

Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which…

— Aristotle

“By banishing metaphysics, materialism has no longer an ethical system, knows no longer the distinction between good and evil, possesses no moral…

— Herman Bavinck

“Even a great philosophical idea when mixed with mysticism, turns into a dangerous weapon that becomes an impediment in the path of…

— Abhijit Naskar

“Back in the past metaphysical realisation needed only the will of realisation. Later realisation also needed initiation. Even later initiation already presupposed…

— András László

“Planets, solar systems, civilizations come and go, yet the universe does not gain, or lose, a single particle. Patterns emerge and disappear,…

— Ian W. Sainsbury

“It is true, no doubt, that this principle of the necessary unity of apperception is itself an identical and therefore an analytic…

— Immanuel Kant

“Nothing could be more alien to contemplation than the cogito ergo sum of Descartes. “I think, therefore I am.” This is the…

— Thomas Merton

“Thus with the question of the Being of truth and the necessity of presupposing it, just as with the question of the…

— Martin Heidegger

Some think to avoid the influence of metaphysical errors, by paying no attention to metaphysics; but experience shows that these men beyond…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

“Being, as the basic theme of philosophy, is no class or genus of entities; yet it pertains to every entity. Its 'universality'…

— Martin Heidegger

“He is romantic—romantic,” he repeated. “And that is very bad—very bad. . . . Very good, too,” he added. “But is he?”…

— Joseph Conrad

It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.

— Gabriel Marcel

“Human understanding is limited—and the things that metaphysics seeks to know, we can never know.”

— T.Z. Lavine

When a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian.

— Shailer Mathews

I guess I wouldn't believe in anything if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch.

— Steve Martin

“The Truth is always trying to reveal itslef to us in our physical world.”

— Matthew A. Petti

[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.

— Samuel Butler

“Three things have a limited threshold: Time, pain, and death. While truth, love, and knowledge – Are boundless.”

— Suzy Kassem

I believe in absolute oneness of God and therefore also of humanity.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I acknowledge that four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what our soul is.

— Voltaire

He who understands baboons would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.

— Charles Darwin

“The Time (T) and Energy (E) we invest in others, people will take it and carry it with them.”

— Ken Poirot

What's impossible to all humanity may be possible to the metaphysics and physiology of angels.

— Joseph Glanvill

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

— William James

“What is this slow blue dream of living, and this fevered death by dreaming?”

— Aberjhani

“There is a leap of faith with any conclusion the mind can conceive.”

— H. Mortara

Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.

— F. H. Bradley