Top 223 Metaphysics Quotes & Sayings

Metaphysics is a cobweb that the mind weaves around things.

Metaphysics keeps surviving its obituaries.

Now these two questions Does there exist a material reality distinct from sensible appearances? and What is the nature of reality? do not have their source in experimental method, which is acquainted only with sensible appearances and can discover nothing beyond them. The resolution of these questions transcends the methods used by physics; it is the object of metaphysics. Therefore, if the aim of physical theories is to explain experimental laws, theoretical physics is not an autonomous science; it is subordinate to metaphysics.

Poetry a riprap on the slick rock of metaphysics

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

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

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

What the Metaphysics of Quality would do is take this separate category, Quality, and show how it contains within itself both subjects and objects. The Metaphysics of Quality would show how things become enormously more coherent-fabulously more coherent-when you start with an assumption that Quality is the primary empirical reality of the world. . . . . . . but showing that, of course, was a very big job. . . .

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

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

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

I'm not sure if Cupitt himself still uses this term, but it's useful in suggesting that, actually, there are more choices than the choice between nihilism and faith. In fact, the issue may not be faith as such but the fact that for millennia, Christianity has buttressed itself with a particular kind of metaphysics that has now seemingly reached the end of its life-span. But perhaps Buddhist metaphysics could provide an alternative here - or, at least, offer a direction of travel.

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

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.

That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.

Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.

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

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

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

Metaphysics is a science.

Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.

Dostoevsky - is not a realist as an artist, he is an experimentator, a creator of an experimential metaphysics of human nature.

Metaphysics abstracts the mind from the senses, and the poetic faculty must submerge the whole mind in the senses. Metaphysics soars up to universals, and the poetic faculty must plunge deep into particulars.

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.

To gauge the understanding and insight that metaphysics provides is to ask whether, in the final analysis, it helps us to cope with our world and harmonize our existence with nature, humanity, and ourselves, and leads to greater freedom and self-realization. Metaphysics is only the beginning. The end is human progress.

Metaphysics is the study of the most general nature and basic structure of reality, and therefore the concepts of metaphysics, concepts like time, space, identity, resemblance, substance, property, fact, event, composition, possibility, etc., are the most fundamental concepts. Thus metaphysics is the most fundamental theoretical discipline.

Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.

Physics, beware of metaphysics.

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.

So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world.

Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman.

Mathematics is the only true metaphysics.

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

Look, there's no metaphysics on earth but chocolates.

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

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

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

Ordinary language embodies the metaphysics of the Stone Age.

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

Metaphysics is the clearing house for all fundamental philosophical problems.

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

I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.

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

I see with much pleasure that you are working on a large work on the integral Calculus ... The reconciliation of the methods which you are planning to make, serves to clarify them mutually, and what they have in common contains very often their true metaphysics; this is why that metaphysics is almost the last thing that one discovers. The spirit arrives at the results as if by instinct; it is only on reflecting upon the route that it and others have followed that it succeeds in generalising the methods and in discovering its 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 role of metaphysics in relation to other disciplines, whether philosophical or not and including the natural sciences, is thus a foundational role. Lack of clarity in the concepts of metaphysics implies lack of clarity in other disciplines - both theoretical and practical disciplines - employing those concepts or employing concepts that depend on those of metaphysics.

Mathematics is the only good metaphysics.

What's impossible to all humanity may be possible to the metaphysics and physiology of angels.

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

I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people.

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

In the deep night of metaphysics, all cats look black.

There’s enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything.

Without forgiveness, metaphysics are useless.

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

Poetry is essentially the antithesis of Metaphysics: Metaphysics purge the mind of the senses and cultivate the disembodiment of the spiritual; Poetry is all passionate and feeling and animates the inanimate; Metaphysics are most perfect when concerned with universals; Poetry, when most concerned with particulars.

Kant's treatments of rational theology and metaphysics were aimed primarily at theoretical questions. His attitude toward the pseudo-sciences of "special metaphysics" in Wolff and Baumgarten was always double-edged. He did see them as pseudo-sciences but also valued their doctrinal value and especially their regulative value for the empirical sciences. Like his views about religion, I don't think any of this is any longer viable in its original form.

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

I teach metaphysics and pastor a church.

It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.