Metaphysics Quotes
190 quotes by 104 authors
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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
— John Adams
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It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of…
— Lascelles Abercrombie
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My studies in Speculative philosophy, metaphysics, and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man running in and out of…
— Benjamin De Casseres
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God will not take shelter behind a jugglery of logic or metaphysics. He is neither a schoolman nor theologian, but our Father in Heaven.
— George MacDonald
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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
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Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes.
— Bertrand Russell
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It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Since science's competence extends to observable and measurable phenomena, not to the inner being of things, and to the means, not to the ends of…
— Jacques Maritain
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Science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics; or, the state of science is an index…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Mathematics is the only good metaphysics.
— Lord Kelvin
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Mathematics is the only true metaphysics.
— Lord Kelvin
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The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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But to proceed in this reconciling project with regard to the question of liberty and necessity; the most contentious question of metaphysics, the most contentious…
— David Hume
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What's impossible to all humanity may be possible to the metaphysics and physiology of angels.
— Joseph Glanvill
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We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel.
— Charles Spurgeon
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The question whether atoms exist or not... belongs rather to metaphysics. In chemistry we have only to decide whether the assumption of atoms is an…
— August Kekule
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If the aim of physical theories is to explain experimental laws, theoretical physics is not an autonomous science; it is subordinate to metaphysics.
— Pierre Duhem
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And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For if truth be…
— David Hume
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Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if we do not…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which the values will…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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