Metaphysics Quotes

190 quotes by 104 authors

In our present state of degeneration it is through the skin that metaphysics must be made to re-enter our minds. — Antonin Artaud
He who understands baboons would do more towards metaphysics than Locke. — Charles Darwin
[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's. — Samuel Butler
In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness.… — Mahatma Gandhi
For Emily Dickinson every philosophical idea was a potential lover. Metaphysics is the realm of eternal seduction of the spirit by ideas. — Charles Simic
There's a limit to my patience with anything that smacks of metaphysics. I squirm at the mention of "mind expansion" or "warm healing energy." I… — Koren Zailckas
In the deep night of metaphysics, all cats look black. — Terry Eagleton
The tragedy is that we cannot believe the dogmas of religion and metaphysics if we have the strict methods of truth in heart and head,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun. — Alan Watts
I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the… — Harun Yahya
Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It… — Mahatma Gandhi
The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it. — Anton Chekhov
What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not… — Oscar Wilde
Thereâ€™s enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything. — Fernando Pessoa
Our mania for rational explanations obviously has its roots in our fear of metaphysics, for the two were always hostile brothers. Hence, anything unexpected that… — Carl Jung
When a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian. — Shailer Mathews
Laughter is the real religion. Everything else is just metaphysics. — Rajneesh
Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear… — Robert Louis Stevenson
The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear - a literal truth in physics, and a metaphorical one in metaphysics. — Iain McGilchrist
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct. — F. H. Bradley

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