Metaphysics Quotes
If an evil spirit had to hide from God, it would hide in a diamond. If an angel had to hide from the Devil, it would hide in rose quartz.
I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
An ideal and flawless freedom, "complete freedom", enabling without disabling, is I believe an oxymoron in metaphysics as much as it is an unreachable goal in social life.
The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.
When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.
Dostoevsky - is not a realist as an artist, he is an experimentator, a creator of an experimential metaphysics of human nature.
Madame de Stael thought it was pride in mankind to endeavour to penetrate the secret of the universe; and speaking of the higher metaphysics she said: "I prefer the Lord's Prayer to it all."
The neutrality and clarity of an engineering drawing is a better model for teaching about art than all the uncontrollable drivel about the cabbala and metaphysics and the ecstasy of sainthood.
My studies in Speculative philosophy, metaphysics, and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man running in and out of every hole in the Cosmos hunting for the Absolute Cheese.
Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which is, both in its essence and in the properties which it has.
Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future yet another.
In the deep night of metaphysics, all cats look black.
God will not take shelter behind a jugglery of logic or metaphysics. He is neither a schoolman nor theologian, but our Father in Heaven.
When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is Metaphysics.
All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it.
Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.
Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
Nothing is necessitated whose opposite is possible.
You don't need to be a scientist to know how powerful your imagination is.
One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.
So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world.
What's impossible to all humanity may be possible to the metaphysics and physiology of angels.
To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics.
Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.
The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs.
If the aim of physical theories is to explain experimental laws, theoretical physics is not an autonomous science; it is subordinate to metaphysics.
Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.
Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken, is a science, or complement of sciences, exclusively occupied with mind.
Logic has its use and metaphysics has its use, but neither of them is of much help in the making of a creed.
Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them.
It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.
Metaphysical speculation is independent of the physical validity of the Big Bang itself and is irrelevant to our understanding of it.
For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.
While the easiest way in metaphysics is to condemn all metaphysics as nonsense, the easiest way in morals is to elevate the common practice of the community into a moral absolute.
No science can be more secure than the unconscious metaphysics which tacitly it presupposes.
Upon the solution of this problem, or upon sufficient proof of the impossibility of synthetical knowledge a priori, depends the existence or downfall of metaphysics.
Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor underlies the former.
