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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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Friedrich Nietzsche
• In mysticism that love of truth which we saw as the beginning of all philosophy leaves the merely intellectual sphere, and takes… — Evelyn Underhill
• Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the… — Leo Tolstoy
• The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers - just as the Italians are musicians and the Germans metaphysicians -… — Jules Verne

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