Metaphysicians Quotes

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A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will… — William James
The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it. — Edward Abbey
Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of… — Charles Caleb Colton
Metaphysicians are musicians without musical ability. — Rudolf Carnap
A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what by two, what… — H. L. Mencken
The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how violently they differ otherwise they… — H. L. Mencken
Knapsack of the Metaphysicians.- Those who boast so mightily of the scientificality of their metaphysics should receive no answer; it is enough to pluck at… — Friedrich Nietzsche
In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes on the assured… — Evelyn Underhill
Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the aesthetical physiologists say,… — Leo Tolstoy
The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers - just as the Italians are musicians and the Germans metaphysicians - by right of… — Jules Verne

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