Metaphysics Quotes

190 quotes by 104 authors

Quand celui Ã qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la mÃ©taphysique When he to whom… — Voltaire
It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics. — Gabriel Marcel
Racism does not limit itself to biology or economics or psychology or metaphysics; it attacks along many fronts and in many forms, deploying whatever is… — Albert Memmi
A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what by two, what… — H. L. Mencken
The unrest which keeps the never stopping clock of metaphysics going is the thought that the nonexistence of this world is just as possible as… — William James
Religion is the metaphysics of the masses. — Arthur Schopenhauer
The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety… — Samuel Johnson
Religion should be disentangled as much as possible from history and authority and metaphysics, and made to rest honestly on one's fine feelings, on one's… — George Santayana
Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make. — Gaston Bachelard
Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic. — John Ray
So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world. — John Polkinghorne
There's a power that brings us to things, and there's a power that lets us move away from things, from people, places, experiences. And what… — Frederick Lenz
Metaphysics is a science. — Gabriel Marcel
That is my morality or my metaphysics or me myself: a passer-by in everything, even my own soul. I belong to nothing, I desire nothing,… — Fernando Pessoa
I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people. — Arthur Schopenhauer
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. Some of their most esteemed… — H. L. Mencken
All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it. — Thomas de Quincey
One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers. — James Russell Lowell
Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics. — Karl Kraus
the senses alone are not implicitly to be depended on. We must correct their evidence by reason, and by considerations, derived from the nature of… — David Hume

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