Metaphysics Quotes

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Metaphysics abstracts the mind from the senses, and the poetic faculty must submerge the whole mind in the senses. Metaphysics soars up to universals, and… — Giambattista Vico
A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics.… — William Winwood Reade
Thus metaphysics and mathematics are, among all the sciences that belong to reason, those in which imagination has the greatest role. I beg pardon of… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert
Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor underlies the former. — David Bentley Hart
The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing. — Wilhelm Dilthey
To create a good philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician. — Bertrand Russell
Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them. — Aristotle
Upon the solution of this problem, or upon sufficient proof of the impossibility of synthetical knowledge a priori, depends the existence or downfall of metaphysics. — Immanuel Kant
The mystery of sound is mysticism; the harmony of life is religion. The knowledge of vibrations is metaphysics, the analysis of atoms is science, and… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
For some days I quietly worked out in my own mind the metaphysics of Cosmic Unity. The more I thought about it, the more convinced… — Freeman Dyson
If our previous analyses are correct, they all point to the same conclusion, that metaphysical adventures are doomed to fail when their authors substitute the… — Etienne Gilson
Metaphysics attempts to discover the ultimate nature of reality, and in this sense, the innerspace of science fiction is metaphysical fiction. — Kate Wilhelm
My aim is to be understood by everyone. I reject the 'depth' that people demand nowadays, into which you can never descend without a diving… — George Grosz
Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so and logic only the art of going wrong… — Joseph Wood Krutch
I see with much pleasure that you are working on a large work on the integral Calculus [ ... ] The reconciliation of the methods… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it. — Boris Pasternak
What the Metaphysics of Quality would do is take this separate category, Quality, and show how it contains within itself both subjects and objects. The… — Robert M. Pirsig
Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived. — Alfred North Whitehead
Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Without forgiveness, metaphysics are useless. — Gary Renard

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