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Metaphysical Quotes by Auguste Comte
- 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…
- Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
More Metaphysical Quotes
- I suppose what makes me most glad is that we all recognize each other in this metaphysical space of silence and happening,… — Thomas Merton
- Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning… — Thomas Jefferson
- The pictures achieve something rarely articulated about the metaphysical state of swimming: The body, immersed, feels amplified, heavier and lighter at the… — Leanne Shapton
- 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… — John Berger
- Science is not a system of certain, or -established, statements; nor is it a system which steadily advances towards a state of… — Karl Popper
- Mathematics has not a foot to stand upon which is not purely metaphysical. — Thomas de Quincey
- I have come to the conclusion that Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical research programme... — Karl Popper