Metaphysics Quotes · Page 6

The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.

— Aleister Crowley

It's progress I think, that science has joined philosophy, metaphysics & religion as subjects drunk people argue about in bars.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

— Walt Whitman

“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

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

— Robert M. Pirsing

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

— Woody Alle

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

— Immanuel Kant

Those who think that metaphysics is just misunderstood grammar will react to my giving metaphysics some place or another in the system…

— Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

Breathless and unharmed, we emerge from the mazes of metaphysics and psychology where man and the soul are playing hide-and-seek.

— Ameen Rihani

Lully's machine, Mill's fear and Lasswitz's chaotic library can be the subject of jokes, but they exaggerate a propensity which is common:…

— Jorge Luis Borges

People wonder why the novel is the most popular form of literature; people wonder why it is read more than books of…

— Anonymous

The usual derivation of the word Metaphysics is not to be sustainedthe science is supposed to take its name from its superiority…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. For many are the…

— Diogenes Laertius

“If we accept that Metaphysics studies the origin and structure of the world from beyond the natural or the physical to the…

— Tasha Heart

The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go…

— Dan Brown

Kant's treatments of rational theology and metaphysics were aimed primarily at theoretical questions. His attitude toward the pseudo-sciences of "special metaphysics" in…

— Allen W. Wood

“Metaphysics, said the late nineteenth-century idealist philosopher Bradley, is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct; but metaphysics…

— Theodore Dalrymple

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

“We also find *physics*, in the widest sense of the word, concerned with the explanation of phenomena in the world; but it…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

The question whether atoms exist or not... belongs rather to metaphysics. In chemistry we have only to decide whether the assumption of…

— August Kekule

“Having grown up knowing the formerly-mentioned historical figures are part of my family lineage, I was interested to learn that at least…

— Hope Bradford

“The *second task* consists in distinguishing the mode of knowing operative in ontology as science of Being, and this requires us to…

— Martin Heidegger

“In consequence of the inevitably scattered and fragmentary nature of our thinking, which has been mentioned, and of the mixing together of…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Fernando Pessoa

In our present state of degeneration it is through the skin that metaphysics must be made to re-enter our minds.

— Antonin Artaud

To create a good philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician.

— Bertrand Russell

“Can all this just be an accident? Or could there be some alien intelligence behind it?”

— Anonymous

The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs.

— Charles Caleb Colton

“The true life is absent.' But we are in the world. Metaphysics arises and is maintained in this alibi.”

— Emmanuel Lévinas

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Descartes said, "I think, therefore I am." I say, "I do not think, that is why I exist."

— Taisen Deshimaru

“A biblical metaphysics implies a biblical theory of knowledge and a biblical ethic.”

— Henry R. Van Til

When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within.

— Mahatma Gandhi

To create a healthy philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician.

— Bertrand Russell

“My metaphysical thinking is more in alignment with Plato rather than Aristotle's." ~R. Alan Woods [2013]”

— R. Alan Woods

We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel.

— Charles Spurgeon

I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.

— Mae West

“In meetings philosophy might work, on the field practicality works.”

— Amit Kalantri