Metaphysics Quotes

Metaphysics is a science.

— Gabriel Marcel

“There are no metaphysics.”

— Jonathan Lethem

“Epistemology models ontology.”

— John Polkinghorne

LOVE never ENDS!

— Anonymous

Physics, beware of metaphysics.

— Isaac Newton

The most Heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together.

— Samuel Johnson

“The energy everything is made of is conscious. It's alive.”

— Chris Prentiss

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.

— John Ray

I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“The spiritual path is more of an unlearning than a learning.”

— Donna Goddard

“People are a soul-ego-spacesuit.”

— Stefan Emunds

“Mystics reign where lacks true education.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Predestination: You Can; You Should; But You Won't”

— monk of YHVH

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

“Metaphysics, the belief in the absolute as a holy power, always forms the foundation of ethics.”

— Herman Bavinck

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

— Voltaire

“Theology, philosophy, metaphysics, and quantum physics are merely ways for God to have his smart people believe in him”

— Jeremy Aldana

“This cause, therefore, of all existing things cannot be any one of them.”

— Plotinus

“A painting shouldn't be just a picture, it should be a philosophy.”

— Amit Kalantri

“The key to the world is the key to your self and the key to yourself is the key to the world.”

— Iva Kenaz

“The unity of scientific and spiritual knowledge is realized when each of the particular sciences is organically related to the supreme knowledge…

— Osman Bakar

“Patriarchy, reformed or unreformed, is patriarchy still: its worst abuses purged or foresworn, it might actually be more stable and secure than…

— Kate Millett

“In post-Nietzschean spirit, the West appears to be busily undermining its own erstwhile metaphysical foundations with an unholy mélange of practical materialism,…

— Terry Eagleton

“I hear them say "Why do I miss someone I haven't even met?" How about not missing someone because it feels like…

— Nicola An

“Easter blessings All life’s sacrifices like autumn leaves awaken our senses and power to love and be whole Our Mother Earth, Our…

— Ramon Ravenswood

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

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

— Fazlur Rahman

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

— Ramon Ravenswood

“Metaphysics, a completely isolated and speculative branch of rational knowledge which is raised above all teachings of experience and rests on concepts…

— Immanuel Kant

“The average human lifespan compared to the age of the universe is the same as comparing a blink of an eye to…

— John K. Brown

“Certainly, what Kant calls the transcendental reference, experience and object of experience are in a sense present in both opposed views of…

— Max Scheler

“The scientific gauge is quantity: space, size, and strength of forces can all be reckoned numerically. The comparable "yardstick" in the traditional…

— Huston Smith

The knowledge that is suited to our situation and powers, the whole compass of moral, natural, and mathematical science, was neglected by…

— Edward Gibbon

“Starting from Descartes’ commitment to a few absolutely certain innate ideas and reason’s ability to determine some facts about reality a priori,…

— Lee Braver

“Metaphysics... is nothing but the inventory of all we possess through pure reason, ordered systematically. Nothing here can escape us, because what…

— Immanuel Kant

It has never been in my power to study anything, mathematics, ethics, metaphysics, gravitation, thermodynamics, optics, chemistry, comparative anatomy, astronomy, psychology, phonetics,…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

Metaphysics is the science of proving what we don't understand.

— Josh Billings

Metaphysics keeps surviving its obituaries.

— Mason Cooley

“We make it all up, even that we don't.”

— Zero Jones