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Metaphysics Quotes

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

Authors on Metaphysics Quotes: Lord Kelvin Gabriel Marcel Arthur Schopenhauer Alfred North Whitehead Josh Billings Samuel Taylor Coleridge Franz Grillparzer Anton Chekhov Karl Kraus Emma Curtis Hopkins Martin Heidegger Voltaire James Russell Lowell Aristotle Fernando Pessoa Edward Abbey Mason Cooley Thomas Carlyle Friedrich Nietzsche Gary Renard Charles Caleb Colton Michel de Montaigne Thomas de Quincey John Ray Rajneesh Isaac Newton Charles Darwin Mircea Eliade Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet Joseph Joubert Samuel Butler Hazrat Inayat Khan
2.
It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
Gabriel Marcel

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

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Physics, beware of metaphysics.
Isaac Newton

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

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

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Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.
Arthur Schopenhauer

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

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

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

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

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Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.
John Ray

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Metaphysics is a science.
Gabriel Marcel

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Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived.
Alfred North Whitehead

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Mathematics is the only good metaphysics.
Lord Kelvin

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

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Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
Joseph Joubert

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

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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.
Martin Heidegger

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

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Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken, is a science, or complement of sciences, exclusively occupied with mind.
Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

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

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

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

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Mathematics is the only true metaphysics.
Lord Kelvin

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

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

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Metaphysics keeps surviving its obituaries.
Mason Cooley

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I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people.
Arthur Schopenhauer

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There’s enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything.
Fernando Pessoa

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Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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Without forgiveness, metaphysics are useless.
Gary Renard

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Metaphysics is a cobweb that the mind weaves around things.
Edward Abbey

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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.
Voltaire

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

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