Metaphysics Quotes

190 quotes by 104 authors

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. — John Adams
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
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
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
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
Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes. — Bertrand Russell
It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct. — W. Somerset Maugham
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
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
Mathematics is the only good metaphysics. — Lord Kelvin
Mathematics is the only true metaphysics. — Lord Kelvin
The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs. — Charles Caleb Colton
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
What's impossible to all humanity may be possible to the metaphysics and physiology of angels. — Joseph Glanvill
We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel. — Charles Spurgeon
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
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
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
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
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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