Metaphysics Quotes

We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'Go...

...when dogma enters the brain, all intellectual activity ceases.

...reality is always plural and mutable.

...an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist re...

belief is the death of intelligence.

Historically mystics have claimed that for a true understanding of reality metaphysics is too “scien...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A professor from UBC observed that he agreed with Alexander Pope about the ultimate unreality of evi...

In post-Nietzschean spirit, the West appears to be busily undermining its own erstwhile metaphysical...

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

Derrida… labels as ‘metaphysical’ any such thought system which depends on an unassailable foundatio...

In the pragmatist, streetwise climate of advanced postmodern capitalism, with its scepticism of big ...

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure.

In itself a wall on which a panoramic view of a non-existent world is drawn does not change. But for...

Comrades in the struggle! The position of modern man is not merely lamentable; one might even say th...

My brothers and sisters of America, there is not the least shadow of hope that India can ever be Chr...

Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la méta...

Can you really believe that a drop of urine is an infinity of monads, and that each of these has ide...

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

Why are we here? We're here to go!

If it turns out that there is a God...the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an...

if being is many, it must be both like and unlike, and this is impossible, for neither can the like ...

Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past...

Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.

A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmareto the jeweled vis...

What is this slow blue dream of living, and this fevered death by dreaming?

Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.

Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal.-- from The Sexual Side of Spirit...

Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, the...

The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorat...

Rainer Maria Rilke greeted and wrestled with the angels of his Duino Elegies in the solitude of a ca...

From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that we are here for the ...

Give us this day our daily Faith, but deliver us, dear God, from Belief.

I've often thought that there isn't any "I" at all; that we are simply the means of expression of so...

The map is not the territory.

From time immemorial, some men supposed to deal in one-valued 'eternal verities'. We called such men...

...no thought, if it be non-mathematical in spirit, can be trusted, and, although mathematicians som...

Philosophy in its old form could exist only in the absence of engineering, but with engineering in e...

Indeed neither life nor science bothers about "essences"-they leave "essences" to metaphysics, which...

Both ignorance and the old metaphysics tend to produce these undesirable nervous effects of reversed...

So live. I'll be the nun for you. I am now.

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

And further, observing that all this indeterminate substance is in motion, and that no true predicat...

Michael O'Toole had no difficulty recognizing which questions in life should be answered by physics ...

In consequence of the inevitably scattered and fragmentary nature of our thinking, which has been me...

The most perfect and satisfactory knowledge is that of perception but this is limited to the absolut...

I now turn to a *subjective* consideration that belongs here; yet I can give even less distinctness ...

What is more, in fact, we very soon look upon the world as something whose non-existence is not only...

In fact, the balance wheel which maintains in motion the watch of metaphysics that never runs down, ...

We also find *physics*, in the widest sense of the word, concerned with the explanation of phenomena...

After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.

From *the form of time and of the single dimension* of the series of representations, on account of ...

Serenity comes from the ability to say “Yes” to existence. Courage comes from the ability to say “No...

The most flattering spin I can put on this phase of paradoxes and metaphysical tangles is that I was...

whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived

The object of the idea constituting the human mind is the body

The order and connection of ideas in the same as the order and connection of things

He who has a true idea simultaneously knows that he has a true idea, and cannot doubt of the truth o...

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind...

The accusation of metaphysics has become in philosophy something like the accusation of being a secu...

How many hours are there in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask-ha...

Origin of man now proved.—Metaphysics must flourish.—He who understands baboon would do more towards...

Once I knew, then I forgot. It was as if I had fallen asleep in a field only to discover at waking t...

That afternoon She listened to the grievances of the dead from two warring nations. Both sides had s...

Hey, metaphysics seminar is on the roof. Just take the elevator up and keep walking until you hit th...

As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. For many are the ...

A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the e...

Ordinary moments make the life. This is what she knew to be trustworthy and this is what I learned, ...

Life is not a fairground, but a school. -- Franz Bardon

It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disp...

To deny the necessity or value of metaphysics is to assert a metaphysical principle, just as to say ...

Can all this just be an accident? Or could there be some alien intelligence behind it?

Metaphysics in philosophy is, of course, supposed to characterize what is real - literally real. The...

For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or th...

...being aware that the sacred quality hidden in the experience of eroticism is something impossible...

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian i...

With his night-cap and his night-shirt tatters,He botches up the loop-holes in the structure of the ...

It must be *possible* for the *I think* to accompany all my representations: for otherwise something...

A similar experiment may be tried in metaphysics as regards the *intuition* of objects. If the intui...

Metaphysics, a completely isolated and speculative branch of rational knowledge which is raised abov...

This experiment succeeds as hoped and promises to metaphysics, in its first part, which deals with t...

It is true, no doubt, that this principle of the necessary unity of apperception is itself an identi...

On the other hand, the moral law, although it gives no such prospect, does provide a fact absolutely...

By this freedom the will of a rational being, as belonging to the sensuous world, recognizes itself ...

We have seen, therefore, that I am not allowed even to *assume*, for the sake of the necessary pract...

Our critique is not opposed to the *dogmatic procedure* of reason in its pure knowledge as science (...

The purpose of this critique of pure speculative reason consists in the attempt to change the old pr...

To know what questions may reasonably be asked is already a great and necessary proof of sagacity an...

Metaphysics... is nothing but the inventory of all we possess through pure reason, ordered systemati...

(On the seeming futility of metaphysics) Why then has nature afflicted our reason with the restless ...

It will be seen how there can be the idea of a special science, the *critique of pure reason* as it ...

High towers, and metaphysically-great men resembling them, round both of which there is commonly muc...