Metaphysical famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content.
-- Arthur Boyd -
Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.
-- Auguste Comte -
Ironclads and Maxim guns must be the ultimate arbiters of metaphysical truth.
-- Bertrand Russell -
Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.
-- Carlos Castaneda -
Probably there was a beginning-it is a metaphysical question, worthy a theologian-species have begun and ended-but the analogy is faint and distant.
-- Charles Lyell -
To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction.
-- Fernando Pessoa -
It is in this mutual dependence of the functions and the aid which they reciprocally lend one another that are founded the laws which determine the relations of their organs and which possess a necessity equal to that of metaphysical or mathematical laws, since it is evident that the seemly harmony between organs which interact is a necessary condition of existence of the creature to which they belong and that if one of these functions were modified in a manner incompatible with the modifications of the others the creature could no longer continue to exist.
-- Georges Cuvier -
A metaphysical conclusion is either a false conclusion or a concealed experimental conclusion.
-- Hermann von Helmholtz -
For to love is to give what one is, his very being, in the most absolute, the most brazenly metaphysical, the least phenomenalizable sense of this word.
-- Jacques Maritain -
Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.
-- Johan Huizinga -
A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.
-- John Keats -
Metaphysics attempts to discover the ultimate nature of reality, and in this sense, the innerspace of science fiction is metaphysical fiction.
-- Kate Wilhelm -
In the American Metaphysical, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.
-- Lionel Trilling -
I don't feel there is any spiritual or metaphysical justification for turning our backs on human suffering.
-- Marianne Williamson -
Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is.
-- Martha Beck -
Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet.
-- Ntozake Shange -
Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.
-- Robert Smithson -
Attaching a Creator to the boundary is metaphysical skullduggery.
-- Taner Edis -
Mathematics has not a foot to stand upon which is not purely metaphysical.
-- Thomas de Quincey -
What I am trying to do is to unmuddle the metaphysical.
-- Wayne Dyer -
Experimental psychology itself has, it is true, now and again suffered relapse into a metaphysical treatment of its problems.
-- Wilhelm Wundt -
Kant certainly was sympathetic with the metaphysical tradition of rational theology that he criticized.
-- Allen W. Wood -
I am metaphysical inasmuch as I am looking for a non-eloquent painting, immobile and of atmosphere, which feeds on static situations.
-- Domenico Gnoli -
If you start asking how do we make life meaningful and life never ends, then you get into sort of these terrible sort of metaphysical quandaries and it gets really, really bleak looking.
-- Hanya Yanagihara -
Naturalism is a methodological rather than a metaphysical view. It's because I am a naturalist, actually, that I am sceptical about physicalism.
-- Tim Crane -
Correlationism rejects metaphysical realism understood as the claim that the way the world is does not depend on how we take things to be. It also rejects the Cartesian corollary, i.e., the claim that the way the mind is does not depend on the way the world is.
-- Ray Brassier
