Metaphysics Quotes

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

It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.

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

Physics, beware of metaphysics.

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

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

Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.

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

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

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

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

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.

Metaphysics is a science.

Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived.

Mathematics is the only good metaphysics.

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it.

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.

One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.

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

Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.

Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them.

Mathematics is the only true metaphysics.

The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs.

No science can be more secure than the unconscious metaphysics which tacitly it presupposes.

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

Metaphysics keeps surviving its obituaries.

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

I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people.

There’s enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything.

Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman.

Without forgiveness, metaphysics are useless.

Metaphysics is a cobweb that the mind weaves around things.

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

Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la métaphysique When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.