Metaphysical Quotes

Metaphysical Quote of the day

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is.

Architecture is bound to situation. And I feel like the site is a metaphysical link, a poetic link, to what a building can be.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

Evolution is not a fact. Evolution doesn't even qualify as a theory or as a hypothesis. It is a metaphysical research program, and it is not really testable science.

Football is not a game but a religion, a metaphysical island of fundamental truth in a highly verbalized, disguised society, a throwback of 30,000 generations of anthropological time.

Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical dilemma I haven't conquered yet.

If one regards life and death as natural processes, the metaphysical dread vanishes, and one obtains peace of mind.

Humanists hold that ethical values are relative to human experience and need not be derived from theological or metaphysical foundations.

The seed of a metaphysical or religious defeat is in us all. For the honest questioner, however, who doesn't seek refuge in some faith or fantasy, there will never be an answer.

What are we here for? Does the great metaphysical nut revolve around that? Well, I'll crack it for you, right now. What are we here for? We are here to go!

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

[On the metaphysical:] ... I knew in some marvelous way I had touched the hem of the unknown. And being me, I wanted to lift that hemline a little bit more.

The political is replacing the metaphysical as the characteristic mode of grasping reality.

Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.

Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.

I have come to the conclusion that Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical research programme.

Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit.

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it.

Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language.

Metaphysical problems about "mind" versus "matter" arise only from epistemological confusions.

Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.

The old metaphysical prejudice that man 'always thinks' has not yet entirely disappeared. I am myself inclined to hold that man really thinks very little and very seldom.

What I am trying to do is to unmuddle the metaphysical.

It's complicated. On the one hand we're killer apes, and on the other hand we have this metaphysical longing.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

Small objects, like the Walkman first and then the iPod, create bubbles of space around us that enable us to have a metaphysical space that is much bigger than our physical space.

Experimental psychology itself has, it is true, now and again suffered relapse into a metaphysical treatment of its problems.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.

The problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical, the same as I think life is physical and metaphysical.

In a religiously uniform culture, it is natural for people to take for granted the truth of the prevailing religion and its associated metaphysical propositions.

Mathematics has not a foot to stand upon which is not purely metaphysical.

Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.

The bed is a metaphysical piece of furniture.

There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that only the novel can seize.

The metaphysical image that a definite epoch forges of the world has the same structure as what the world immediately understands to be appropriate as a form of its political organization.

The philosophical I is not the human being, not the human body or the human soul with the psychological properties, but the metaphysical subject, the boundary (not a part) of the world.

Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages.

In the American Metaphysical, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.

Ironclads and Maxim guns must be the ultimate arbiters of metaphysical truth.

The ultimate metaphysical ground is the creative advance into novelty.

Metaphysical thinking will always no doubt be a strong element in her mentality, and it is to be hoped that she will never lose her great, her sovereign powers in that direction.

For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey.

I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content.

The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.