Metaphysics Quotes:
Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived.
topic: Mind, Impressive, Metaphysics, Vedanta
The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
topic: World, Existentialism, Metaphysics, Conception
It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
topic: Metaphysics, Probity, Concerned
Without forgiveness, metaphysics are useless.
source: Gary R. Renard (2010). “The Disappearance of the Universe”, p.353, ReadHowYouWant.com
topic: Useless, Metaphysics
One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.
topic: Temptation, Philosopher, Metaphysics
Mathematics is the only good metaphysics.
topic: Mathematics, Metaphysics, Math And Love, Mathematics And Science, Math Love
I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
topic: Study, Physics, Metaphysics
source: "The Little Book of Romanian Wisdom". Book by Diana Doroftei and Matthew Cross, 2011.
topic: Way, Definitions, Metaphysics
[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
topic: Mind, Doe, Metaphysics
topic: Taken, Mind, Metaphysics
All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it.
source: Thomas De Quincey, James Thomas Fields (1854). “De Quincey's Writings: Essays on philosophical writers and other men of letters. 1854-60. [v. 14 stereotyped”, p.103
topic: Knowledge, Metaphysics
source: Emma Curtis Hopkins (2012). “Scientific Christian Mental Practice”, p.8, Jazzybee Verlag
topic: Impossible, Call Me, Metaphysics
source: Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.164
topic: Promise, Mathematics, Metaphysics
There’s enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything.
source: Fernando Pessoa (2012). “A Centenary Pessoa”, p.87, Carcanet
topic: Thinking, Enough, Metaphysics
Metaphysics must be based on what exists, for it has the task of explicating it.
topic: Tasks, Metaphysics, Empiricism
Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman.
source: Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.309, Penguin
topic: Christianity, Metaphysics, Hangman
No science can be more secure than the unconscious metaphysics which tacitly it presupposes.
source: Alfred North Whitehead (1933). “Adventure of Ideas”
topic: Metaphysics, Unconscious, Secure
Laughter is the real religion. Everything else is just metaphysics.
topic: Laughter, Real, Metaphysics
Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind.
source: Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.89, CUP Archive
topic: Mind, Rise Above, Metaphysics
source: Martin Heidegger, Joan Stambaugh (2002). “On Time and Being”, p.6, University of Chicago Press
topic: Thinking, Metaphysics, Term
Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.
source: Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Religion: A Dialogue and Other Essays”, p.6, Cosimo, Inc.
topic: Religion, Mass, Metaphysics
Metaphysics is the science of proving what we don't understand.
source: Josh Billings (1953). “Uncle Sam&s uncle Josh”
topic: Metaphysics, Prove
topic: Doe, Speak, Metaphysics
Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.
source: Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”
topic: Newspapers, Fortune, Metaphysics, Fortune Teller
Metaphysics is a cobweb that the mind weaves around things.
source: Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.11, RosettaBooks
topic: Mind, Cobwebs, Metaphysics
source: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, James MARSH (D.D.) (1829). “Aids to reflection, in the formation of a manly character ... illustrated by select passages ... especially from Archbishop Leighton ... First American, from the first London edition ... Together with a preliminary essay, and additional notes, by James Marsh”, p.397
topic: Law, Being Me, Metaphysics