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Metaphysics Quotes by Charles Simic
- 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…
- For Emily Dickinson every philosophical idea was a potential lover. Metaphysics is the realm of eternal seduction of the spirit by ideas.
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- Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. — John Adams
- It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct. — W. Somerset Maugham
- It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the… — Lascelles Abercrombie
- The question whether atoms exist or not... belongs rather to metaphysics. In chemistry we have only to decide whether the assumption of… — August Kekule
- And indeed nothing but the most determined scepticism, along with a great degree of indolence, can justify this aversion to metaphysics. For… — David Hume
- Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if… — Mahatma Gandhi
- I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of clay in… — Mahatma Gandhi
- In nature there is a fundamental unity running through all the diversity we see about us. Religions are given to mankind so… — Mahatma Gandhi