“metaphysics has always struck me as a prolonged form of latent insanity.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
If you're trained in metaphysics, you don't see the world as distinct from yourself. You are one with the world. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Metaphysics is the clearing house for all fundamental philosophical problems. — Joseph Alexander Leighton Copy Share Image
I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of another boy. — Woody Alle Copy Share Image
“Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a 30,000 page menu and no food.” — Robert M. Pirsing Copy Share Image
Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it. — Boris Pasternak 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
“For Heidegger, the central question concerning Being is not the everyday activities or practices of human beings, but rather what such activities… — Barbara Bolt Copy Share Image
“What resists phenomenology within us--natural being, the 'barbarian' source Schelling spoke of--cannot remain outside phenomenology. The philosopher must bear his shadow, which… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
Metaphysics attempts to discover the ultimate nature of reality, and in this sense, the innerspace of science fiction is metaphysical fiction. — Kate Wilhelm Copy Share Image
“Knowlede is power and Absolute Knowledge is Absolute Power or the Power of Truth, which is constantly shaping events and circumstances to… — Matthew A. Petti 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 exposé, the compassion and outrage, of documentary fueled by the dedication to reform has shaded over into combinations of exoticism, tourism,… — Martha Rosler Copy Share Image
“There are mystical, unbreakable bonds between all members of the natural world including humans and animals. Whether or not we remember or… — Elizabeth Eiler Copy Share Image
There's a limit to my patience with anything that smacks of metaphysics. I squirm at the mention of "mind expansion" or "warm… — Koren Zailckas Copy Share Image
“This is the way in which everyday Dasein always is: when I open the door, for instance, I use the latch. The… — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
“476. Children do not learn that books exist, that armchairs exist, etc.,etc. - they learn to fetch books, sit in armchairs, etc.,etc.… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
It's also one of these strange points where metaphysics converges with economy. Because really what the experts are doing is creating value… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
“He describes A5 here as the act of thinking determining Being: Thinking sets itself against Being in such a way that Being… — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
“If metaphysics enjoys the least freedom from assumed premises, man enjoys the least freedom from metaphysics in that metaphysical beliefs are the… — Fazlur Rahman Copy Share Image
“When we run over libraries, persuaded of these principles, what havoc must we make? If we take in our hand any volume… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“In 1714, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz argued that matter alone could never produce a mind. Leibniz was a German philosopher, mathematician, and scientist… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Three things have a limited threshold: Time, pain, and death. While truth, love, and knowledge – Are boundless.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
I believe in absolute oneness of God and therefore also of humanity. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I guess I wouldn't believe in anything if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
“The Truth is always trying to reveal itslef to us in our physical world.” — Matthew A. Petti Copy Share Image
What's impossible to all humanity may be possible to the metaphysics and physiology of angels. — Joseph Glanvill Copy Share Image
If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
He who understands baboons would do more towards metaphysics than Locke. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I acknowledge that four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what our soul is. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“The Time (T) and Energy (E) we invest in others, people will take it and carry it with them.” — Ken Poirot 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
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
But to proceed in this reconciling project with regard to the question of liberty and necessity; the most contentious question of metaphysics,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I have found by experience that man makes his plans to be upset by God, but, at the same time, where the… — 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