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Metaphysics Quotes by William James
- 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…
- Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
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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 seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the… — Lascelles Abercrombie
- My studies in Speculative philosophy, metaphysics, and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man running in… — Benjamin De Casseres
- God will not take shelter behind a jugglery of logic or metaphysics. He is neither a schoolman nor theologian, but our Father… — George MacDonald
- The mathematical framework of quantum theory has passed countless successful tests and is now universally accepted as a consistent and accurate description… — Fritjof Capra
- Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes. — Bertrand Russell
- It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct. — W. Somerset Maugham
- Since science's competence extends to observable and measurable phenomena, not to the inner being of things, and to the means, not to… — Jacques Maritain