Metaphysical Quotes

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.

To achieve contact with reality is not to transport oneself elsewhere, it is not transcendence but thorough immersion in one's surroundings. A reality which is neither purely physical nor metaphysical, but both at once.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

It is in this mutual dependence of the functions and the aid which they reciprocally lend one another that are founded the laws which determine the relations of their organs and which possess a necessity equal to that of metaphysical or mathematical laws, since it is evident that the seemly harmony between organs which interact is a necessary condition of existence of the creature to which they belong and that if one of these functions were modified in a manner incompatible with the modifications of the others the creature could no longer continue to exist.

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.

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

Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.

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

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

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

The ultimate metaphysical ground is the creative advance into novelty.

What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.

A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.

There will be well-testable theories, hardly testable theories, and non-testable theories. Those which are non-testable are of no interest to empirical scientists. They may be described as metaphysical.

Correlationism rejects metaphysical realism understood as the claim that the way the world is does not depend on how we take things to be. It also rejects the Cartesian corollary, i.e., the claim that the way the mind is does not depend on the way the world is.

That which is communicated, i.e., understood, is metaphysical. The means of communication is physical.

The long words are not the hard words, it is the short words that are hard. There is much more metaphysical subtlety in the word "damn" than in the word "degeneration."

I think part of Western metaphysical dualism is, we're always being asked to choose one over the other.

Attaching a Creator to the boundary is metaphysical skullduggery.

When we mediate, we are raising the kundalini through focus, through concentration. There is a metaphysical astral process that's taking place.

For to love is to give what one is, his very being, in the most absolute, the most brazenly metaphysical, the least phenomenalizable sense of this word.

I am metaphysical inasmuch as I am looking for a non-eloquent painting, immobile and of atmosphere, which feeds on static situations.

As I already explaned, I don't have any form. I'm a conceptual metaphysical object.

Metaphysical speculation is about as pointless as a discussion on the meaning of one's lungs. They're for breathing.

Probably there was a beginning-it is a metaphysical question, worthy a theologian-species have begun and ended-but the analogy is faint and distant.

The world is full of burled and gnarly knobs on which you can hang a metaphysical system. If you must.

Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.

I don't feel there is any spiritual or metaphysical justification for turning our backs on human suffering.

To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction.

A metaphysical conclusion is either a false conclusion or a concealed experimental conclusion.

Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of the psyche, and are therefore psychological. Whenever the Westerner hears the word “psychological,” it always sounds to him like “only psychological.

Love is a metaphysical gravity.

The irrational haunts the metaphysical.

If you start asking how do we make life meaningful and life never ends, then you get into sort of these terrible sort of metaphysical quandaries and it gets really, really bleak looking.

Naturalism is a methodological rather than a metaphysical view. It's because I am a naturalist, actually, that I am sceptical about physicalism.

Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations.

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

Kant certainly was sympathetic with the metaphysical tradition of rational theology that he criticized.