Metaphysics Quotes · Page 7

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

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

— Ken Poirot

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

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

— Joseph Glanvill

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

— Matthew A. Petti

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

— Pierre Duhem

The world is touched by sacrifice. It does not then discriminate about the merits of a cause. No so God - He…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Whenever I see an erring man, I say to myself I have also erred; when I see a lustful man I say…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Aristotle's metaphysics, roughly speaking, may be described as Plato diluted by common sense. He is difficult because Plato and common sense do…

— Bertrand Russell

“We know that energy can not be created nor destroyed but can be changed in it's form. If it can not be…

— Mohammed Ali

“I am that I am a Goddess, a God entitled to the deepest and most beautiful sensations offered by Heaven and Earth…

— Ramon Ravenswood

“The word Universe is made up of two Latin words- uni (meaning "one") and versus (meaning "turned into"). It literally means "one…

— Chris Prentiss

“Metaphysics, in my understanding, is the unity of knowledge and the meaning and orientation this unity gives to life. If this unity…

— Fazlur Rahman

“The Clochemerle 1929 was a magnificent wine. Drinking it in small sips, his grace the Archbishop felt himself well disposed towards the…

— Gabriel Chevallier

We are merely instruments of the Almighty's will and therefore ignorant of what helps us forward and what acts as an impediment.…

— Mahatma Gandhi

The notion that science does not concern itself with first causes - that it leaves the field to theology or metaphysics, and…

— H. L. Mencken

“There is therefore neither conflict nor variation between the method of Logic and the method of Nature. The movement of both is…

— Anonymous

“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

“God is triune, and all reality is structured in terms of Him. A brief definition of the Trinity might be this: One…

— David Chilton

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

— Steve Martin

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

— Samuel Butler

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Suzy Kassem

“With his night-cap and his night-shirt tatters, He botches up the loop-holes in the structure of the world.”

— Heinrich Heine

Human society is a ceaseless growth, and unfoldment in terms of spirituality.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Laughter is the real religion. Everything else is just metaphysics.

— Rajneesh

“A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the…

— Anonymous

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

— Immanuel Kant

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.

— Robert M. Pirsig

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

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

— R. Alan Woods

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

— Amit Kalantri

In both metaphysics and art, honesty is the best policy. Keep it clean.

— Edward Abbey

“The degree to which your Consciousness expands, is the degree to which you understand yourself and the universe.”

— Gina Charles