Metaphysics Quotes

190 quotes by 104 authors

The world is touched by sacrifice. It does not then discriminate about the merits of a cause. No so God - He is all seeing.… — Mahatma Gandhi
To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is… — Wallace Stevens
Agnosticism is no excuse for indecision. If anything, it is a catalyst for action; for in shifting concern away from a future life and back… — Stephen Batchelor
I teach metaphysics and pastor a church. — Della Reese
In both metaphysics and art, honesty is the best policy. Keep it clean. — Edward Abbey
In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend their lives inside… — Edward Abbey
Metaphysics is a cobweb that the mind weaves around things. — Edward Abbey
You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return. — Carl Jung
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct. — F. H. Bradley
The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, Professor Cohen, how do I know that I… — Saul Bellow
Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible. — H. L. Mencken
Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which is, both in… — Aristotle
Metaphysics of Evolution: What is Matter & Life? 'Recent discoveries from Russia confirm that DNA / Genes are resonant structures which are subtly interconnected to… — Alan Haselhurst
Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us. — Huston Smith
The religion of the short poem, in every age and in every literature, has a single commandment: Less is always more. The short poem rejects… — Charles Simic
Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing, in order to locate what is unique and inexpressible… — Henri Bergson
Ivan and Misha is the great American Russian Novel told as Chekhov would tell it, in stories of delicacy, humanity, and insight. From Kiev to… — Carolyn Cooke
We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel. Man's fall, his need of a new birth, forgiveness through atonement, and… — Charles Spurgeon
Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological movements of their… — Wilhelm Dilthey
The way towards 'wisdom' or towards 'freedom' is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition of metaphysics. — Mircea Eliade

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