Metaphysics famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
-- Anton Chekhov -
I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
-- Gabriel Marcel -
Without forgiveness, metaphysics are useless.
-- Gary Renard -
One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.
-- James Russell Lowell -
I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
-- Michel de Montaigne -
The way towards 'wisdom' or towards 'freedom' is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition of metaphysics.
-- Mircea Eliade -
[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
-- Samuel Butler -
Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken, is a science, or complement of sciences, exclusively occupied with mind.
-- Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet -
All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it.
-- Thomas de Quincey -
We call metaphysics the Science of Life, because to know pure metaphysics is to renew the life and make death and accident impossible.
-- Emma Curtis Hopkins