Metaphysics Quotes

Metaphysics Quote of the day

To create reality, focus beyond the outcome, as if it has already happened.

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?

The way towards 'wisdom' or towards 'freedom' is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition of metaphysics.

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.

Physics, beware of metaphysics.

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

The map is not the territory.

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological movements of their day.

When a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian.

Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment. "Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals" (1785)

Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more.

Attaining consciousness is connected with the gradual liberation from mechanicalness, for man is fully and completely under mechanical laws.

If you don't break your ropes while you're alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?

...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.

We call metaphysics the Science of Life, because to know pure metaphysics is to renew the life and make death and accident impossible.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

...reality is always plural and mutable.

Any landscape is a condition of the spirit.

The difference between physics and metaphysics is not that the practitioners of one are smarter than the practitioners of the other. The difference is that the metaphysicist has no laboratory.

Serenity comes from the ability to say “Yes” to existence. Courage comes from the ability to say “No” to the wrong choices made by others.

The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever...and all the time it is carrying us about...It is the human nervous system itself.

You are as prone to love, as the sun is to shine.

What is it that makes a person insist passionately on the existence of metaphysical realities that can be neither demonstrated nor refuted? (176)

belief is the death of intelligence.

Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.

Look, there's no metaphysics on earth but chocolates.

Life is not a fairground, but a school. -- Franz Bardon

You create your own reality.

Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.

The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, Professor Cohen, how do I know that I exist? The keen old prof replied, And who is asking?

Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.

Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.

For Emily Dickinson every philosophical idea was a potential lover. Metaphysics is the realm of eternal seduction of the spirit by ideas.

Laughter is the real religion. Everything else is just metaphysics.

According to metaphysics, fear is caused by the lack of light.

[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.

I acknowledge that four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what our soul is.

In our present state of degeneration it is through the skin that metaphysics must be made to re-enter our minds.

That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.

He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.

Metaphysics is a science.

...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it.

One possibility is: God is nothing but the power of the universe to organize itself.

Breathless and unharmed, we emerge from the mazes of metaphysics and psychology where man and the soul are playing hide-and-seek.