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Metaphysics Quotes

Consider metaphysics as an extension of the physical Picture Quote #1

Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible Picture Quote #1

It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct Picture Quote #1

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind Picture Quote #1

Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct Picture Quote #1

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power Picture Quote #1

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If you’re trained in metaphysics, you don’t see the world as distinct from yourself. You are one with the world Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food Picture Quote #1

Logic has its use and metaphysics has its use, but neither of them is of much help in the making of a creed Picture Quote #1

Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work Picture Quote #1

Metaphysics, the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken, is a science, or complement of sciences, exclusively occupied with mind Picture Quote #1

He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity Picture Quote #1

Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us Picture Quote #1

It’s progress I think, that science has joined philosophy, metaphysics and religion as subjects drunk people argue about in bars Picture Quote #1

Breathless and unharmed, we emerge from the mazes of metaphysics and psychology where man and the soul are playing hide-and-seek Picture Quote #1

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It’s so hard to believe in anything anymore. I mean, it’s like, religion, you really can’t take it seriously, because it seems so mythological, it seems so arbitrary...but, on the other hand, science is just pure empiricism, and by virtue of its method, it excludes metaphysics. I guess I wouldn’t believe in anything anymore if it weren’t for my lucky astrology mood watch Picture Quote #1

Theology, philosophy, metaphysics, and quantum physics are merely ways for God to have his smart people believe in him Picture Quote #1

Neither is there figurative and non-figurative art. All things appear to us in the shape of forms. Even in metaphysics ideas are expressed by forms. Well then, think how absurd it would be to think of painting without the imagery of forms. A figure, an object, a circle, are forms; they affect us more or less intensely Picture Quote #1

They seek neither truth nor likelihood; they seek astonishment. They think metaphysics is a branch of the literature of fantasy Picture Quote #1

The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear - a literal truth in physics, and a metaphorical one in metaphysics Picture Quote #1

Hinduism is wholly free from the strange obsession of some faiths that the acceptance of a particular religious metaphysics is necessary for salvation, and non-acceptance thereof is a heinous sin meriting eternal punishment in hell Picture Quote #1

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However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century Picture Quote #1

So Whitehead’s metaphysics doesn’t fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world Picture Quote #1

That’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it Picture Quote #1

It’s also one of these strange points where metaphysics converges with economy. Because really what the experts are doing is creating value by banishing doubt. All great dead painters basically have this one person, this expert who has the metaphysical power to grant a seal of authenticity Picture Quote #1

I believe in metaphysics. I don’t believe in God because I think that is a human simplification of the things we can’t explain. But I believe in a greater universe Picture Quote #1

Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing. It embodies, indeed, something better thanthe metaphysics of the Stone Age, namely, as was said, the inherited experience and acumen of many generations of men Picture Quote #1

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Consider metaphysics as an extension of the physical (Metaphysics Quotes) Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible (Metaphysics Quotes) It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct (Metaphysics Quotes) To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind (Metaphysics Quotes) Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct (Metaphysics Quotes) Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power (Metaphysics Quotes) If you’re trained in metaphysics, you don’t see the world as distinct from yourself. You are one with the world (Metaphysics Quotes) 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 (Metaphysics Quotes) Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food (Metaphysics Quotes) Logic has its use and metaphysics has its use, but neither of them is of much help in the making of a creed (Metaphysics Quotes) Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work (Metaphysics Quotes) Metaphysics, the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being (Metaphysics Quotes) 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 (Metaphysics Quotes) Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken, is a science, or complement of sciences, exclusively occupied with mind (Metaphysics Quotes) He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity (Metaphysics Quotes) Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us (Metaphysics Quotes) It’s progress I think, that science has joined philosophy, metaphysics and religion as subjects drunk people argue about in bars. (Metaphysics Quotes) Breathless and unharmed, we emerge from the mazes of metaphysics and psychology where man and the soul are playing hide-and-seek. (Metaphysics Quotes) It’s so hard to believe in anything anymore. I mean, it’s like, religion, you really can’t take it seriously, because it seems so mythological, it seems so arbitrary...but, on the other hand, science is just pure empiricism, and by virtue of its method, it excludes metaphysics. I guess I wouldn’t believe in anything anymore if it weren’t for my lucky astrology mood watch. (Metaphysics Quotes) Theology, philosophy, metaphysics, and quantum physics are merely ways for God to have his smart people believe in him (Metaphysics Quotes) Neither is there figurative and non-figurative art. All things appear to us in the shape of forms. Even in metaphysics ideas are expressed by forms. Well then, think how absurd it would be to think of painting without the imagery of forms. A figure, an object, a circle, are forms; they affect us more or less intensely. (Metaphysics Quotes) They seek neither truth nor likelihood; they seek astonishment. They think metaphysics is a branch of the literature of fantasy (Metaphysics Quotes) The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear - a literal truth in physics, and a metaphorical one in metaphysics. (Metaphysics Quotes) Hinduism is wholly free from the strange obsession of some faiths that the acceptance of a particular religious metaphysics is necessary for salvation, and non-acceptance thereof is a heinous sin meriting eternal punishment in hell. (Metaphysics Quotes) However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century. (Metaphysics Quotes) So Whitehead’s metaphysics doesn’t fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world (Metaphysics Quotes) That’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it. (Metaphysics Quotes) It’s also one of these strange points where metaphysics converges with economy. Because really what the experts are doing is creating value by banishing doubt. All great dead painters basically have this one person, this expert who has the metaphysical power to grant a seal of authenticity. (Metaphysics Quotes) I believe in metaphysics. I don’t believe in God because I think that is a human simplification of the things we can’t explain. But I believe in a greater universe. (Metaphysics Quotes) Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing. It embodies, indeed, something better thanthe metaphysics of the Stone Age, namely, as was said, the inherited experience and acumen of many generations of men (Metaphysics Quotes)

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