Metaphysical Quotes

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Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is. — Martha Beck
Traditional Chinese art looked at the Earth from a Confucian mountain top; Japanese art looked closely around screens; Italian Renaissance art surveyed conquered nature through… — John Berger
In a deep metaphysical sense, all that is conditioned is illusory. All phenomena are literally 'appearances,' the outer masks in which the One Reality shows… — Annie Besant
For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical… — Joseph Brodsky
The world's a mean place. It's unfair, then it's fair. It's hateful, then it's loving. It's a very peculiar place on philosophical and metaphysical and… — Tim Allen
The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description of all atomic… — Fritjof Capra
I suppose what makes me most glad is that we all recognize each other in this metaphysical space of silence and happening, and get some… — Thomas Merton
Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In the American Metaphysical, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant. — Lionel Trilling
Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Metaphysical ghosts cannot be killed, because they cannot be touched; but they may be dispelled by dispelling the twilight in which shadows and solidities are… — George Henry Lewes
Science is not a system of certain, or -established, statements; nor is it a system which steadily advances towards a state of finality... And our… — Karl Popper
...the scientific attitude implies what I call the postulate of objectivity-that is to say, the fundamental postulate that there is no plan, that there is… — Jacques Monod
Mathematics has not a foot to stand upon which is not purely metaphysical. — Thomas de Quincey
Evolution is not a fact. Evolution doesn't even qualify as a theory or as a hypothesis. It is a metaphysical research program, and it is… — Karl Popper
I have come to the conclusion that Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical research programme... — Karl Popper
When spiritual, metaphysical, material, or immaterial events come into my life, I can only fix them by way of painting. — Max Beckmann
Consider the Koran, for example; this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve hundred… — Arthur Schopenhauer
The law is this: that each of our leading conceptions-each branch of our knowledge-passes successively through three different theoretical conditions: the Theological, or fictitious: the… — Auguste Comte
Science is wonderful at destroying metaphysical answers, but incapable of providing substitute ones. Science takes away foundations without providing a replacement. Whether we want to… — Hilary Putnam

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