Metaphysics Quotes

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.

I think metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life; otherwise forget it.

In both metaphysics and art, honesty is the best policy. Keep it clean.

Metaphysics keeps surviving its obituaries.

Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind.

There’s enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything.

But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.

Physics depends on a universe infinitely centred on an equals sign.

To bracket form and finality out of one's investigations as far as reason allows is a matter of method, but to deny their reality altogether is a matter of metaphysics.

Do not commit spiritual suicide through a passion for discussing metaphysical subtleties.

Kant can provide, and has provided, a good model for philosophers to think about the relation of metaphysics to science and scientific methodology.

poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you will, of journalism and metaphysics, or of science and religion.

I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people.

Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt, however disguised, to give legislative force to our own wishes.

Aristotle's metaphysics, roughly speaking, may be described as Plato diluted by common sense. He is difficult because Plato and common sense do not mix easily.

To create a healthy philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician.

We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel.

But to proceed in this reconciling project with regard to the question of liberty and necessity; the most contentious question of metaphysics, the most contentious science.

In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend their lives inside rooms. It is an indoor philosophy.

Metaphysics is a cobweb that the mind weaves around things.

Metaphysics must be based on what exists, for it has the task of explicating it.

That Hegel is a metaphysician, and that he thinks metaphysics is fundamental to philosophy, is plain enough from his definition of philosophy.

There's a power that brings us to things, and there's a power that lets us move away from things, from people, places, experiences. And what you learn to do in metaphysics is accept.

Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman.

Without forgiveness, metaphysics are useless.

Poetry a riprap on the slick rock of metaphysics

Religion should be disentangled as much as possible from history and authority and metaphysics, and made to rest honestly on one's fine feelings, on one's indomitable optimism and trust in life.

Knowledge has the form of a tree, and since metaphysics is the most fundamental one of the theoretical disciplines, it represents the roots of the tree.

Those who think that metaphysics is just misunderstood grammar will react to my giving metaphysics some place or another in the system of knowledge.

Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible.

Ordinary language embodies the metaphysics of the Stone Age.

Metaphysics is the clearing house for all fundamental philosophical problems.

The God of metaphysics is but an idea. But the God of religion, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sovereign Judge of actions and thoughts, is a power.

Metaphysics is the science of proving what we don't understand.

Metaphysics attempts to discover the ultimate nature of reality, and in this sense, the innerspace of science fiction is metaphysical fiction.

I'm a humanist. I'm an observer. I have a very scientific mind. I believe metaphysics and science absolutely blended are more the truth for me. It doesn't work just believing in what somebody says.

It's progress I think, that science has joined philosophy, metaphysics & religion as subjects drunk people argue about in bars.

Metaphysics notwithstanding, I also insert myself in my fictions for no loftier purpose than to give me pleasure: to see myself performing onstage.

I am not much of a hand at love songs, you see I mingle metaphysics with even this, but perhaps in this age of Philosophy that may be excused.

Within a Metaphysics of Quality, science is a set of static intellectual patterns describing this reality, but the patterns are not the reality they describe.

The unrest which keeps the never stopping clock of metaphysics going is the thought that the nonexistence of this world is just as possible as its existence.

If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.

whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived

After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.

He who has a true idea simultaneously knows that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth of the thing perceived.

The order and connection of ideas in the same as the order and connection of things

The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body

The person who wishes to attain human perfection should study logic first, next mathematics, then physics, and, lastly, metaphysics.

Origin of man now proved.—Metaphysics must flourish.—He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.

Can you really believe that a drop of urine is an infinity of monads, and that each of these has ideas, however obscure, of the universe as a whole?