Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection must therefore first study Logic next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order then Physics and lastly Metaphysics.
Metaphysics is a science.
Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
That's metaphysics my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor my stomach won't take it.
Liberty according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
He however who begins with Metaphysics will not only become confused in matters of religion but will fall into complete infidelity.
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which is both in its essence and in the properties which it has.
To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
Metaphysics keeps surviving its obituaries.
Metaphysics is the clearing house for all fundamental philosophical problems.
Metaphysics is a cobweb that the mind weaves around things.
Metaphysics is the science of proving what we don't understand.
Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind.
Metaphysics must be based on what exists for it has the task of explicating it.
Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible.
Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them.
Metaphysics --the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.
Metaphysics in whatever latitude the term be taken is a science or complement of sciences exclusively occupied with mind.
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment. "Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals" (1785)
For Emily Dickinson every philosophical idea was a potential lover. Metaphysics is the realm of eternal seduction of the spirit by ideas.
Metaphysics notwithstanding I also insert myself in my fictions for no loftier purpose than to give me pleasure: to see myself performing onstage.
Within a Metaphysics of Quality science is a set of static intellectual patterns describing this reality but the patterns are not the reality they describe.
Metaphysics may be after all only the art of being sure of something that is not so and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.
Physics beware of metaphysics.
Logic works metaphysics contemplates.
I teach metaphysics and pastor a church.
Look there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.
Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.
I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics that is my physics.
Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods but a new metaphysics can rescue us.
It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.
The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.
If you're trained in metaphysics you don't see the world as distinct from yourself. You are one with the world.
When he to whom one speaks does not understand and he who speaks himself does not understand that is metaphysics.
Go beyond science into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.
I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
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.
My studies in Speculative philosophy metaphysics and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man running in and out of every hole in the Cosmos hunting for the Absolute Cheese.
Without forgiveness metaphysics are useless.
Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman.
There's enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything.
Ordinary language embodies the metaphysics of the Stone Age.
Poetry a riprap on the slick rock of metaphysics
In the deep night of metaphysics all cats look black.
I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people.
Laughter is the real religion. Everything else is just metaphysics.
According to metaphysics fear is caused by the lack of light.
He who understands baboons would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.
Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived.
Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.
We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics but the simple gospel.
One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.
I think metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life; otherwise forget it.
In both metaphysics and art honesty is the best policy. Keep it clean.
The more I learn of physics the more I am drawn 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.
What's impossible to all humanity may be possible to the metaphysics and physiology of angels.
All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics and finally perhaps revolve into it.
Ethical metaphysics is fundamentally an attempt however disguised to give legislative force to our own wishes.
[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own but one does not like anyone else's.
So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world.
It's progress I think that science has joined philosophy metaphysics & religion as subjects drunk people argue about in bars.
Theology philosophy metaphysics and quantum physics are merely ways for God to have his smart people believe in him
In our present state of degeneration it is through the skin that metaphysics must be made to re-enter our minds.
They seek neither truth nor likelihood; they seek astonishment. They think metaphysics is a branch of the literature of fantasy
The way towards 'wisdom' or towards 'freedom' is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition of metaphysics.
Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together and do the least work.
That Hegel is a metaphysician and that he thinks metaphysics is fundamental to philosophy is plain enough from his definition of philosophy.
Dostoevsky - is not a realist as an artist he is an experimentator a creator of an experimential metaphysics of human nature.
When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him and when a man who's speaking no longer understands it's metaphysics.
When a historian enters into metaphysics he has gone to a far country from whose bourne he will never return a historian.
If the aim of physical theories is to explain experimental laws theoretical physics is not an autonomous science; it is subordinate to metaphysics.
Kant can provide and has provided a good model for philosophers to think about the relation of metaphysics to science and scientific methodology.
Empiricism in the sciences is a method; naturalism in philosophy is a metaphysics; and the latter neither follows from nor underlies the former.
Logic has its use and metaphysics has its use but neither of them is of much help in the making of a creed.
We call metaphysics the Science of Life because to know pure metaphysics is to renew the life and make death and accident impossible.
God will not take shelter behind a jugglery of logic or metaphysics. He is neither a schoolman nor theologian but our Father in Heaven.
Those who think that metaphysics is just misunderstood grammar will react to my giving metaphysics some place or another in the system of knowledge.
Upon the solution of this problem or upon sufficient proof of the impossibility of synthetical knowledge a priori depends the existence or downfall of metaphysics.
However the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century.
Aristotle's metaphysics roughly speaking may be described as Plato diluted by common sense. He is difficult because Plato and common sense do not mix easily.
But to proceed in this reconciling project with regard to the question of liberty and necessity; the most contentious question of metaphysics the most contentious science...
Knowledge has the form of a tree and since metaphysics is the most fundamental one of the theoretical disciplines it represents the roots of the tree.
Physics is unable to stand on its own feet but needs a metaphysics on which to support itself whatever fine airs it may assume towards the latter.
The unrest which keeps the never stopping clock of metaphysics going is the thought that the nonexistence of this world is just as possible as its existence.
The great question in life is the suffering we cause and the most ingenious metaphysics do not justify the man who has broken the heart that loved him.
An ideal and flawless freedom "complete freedom" enabling without disabling is I believe an oxymoron in metaphysics as much as it is an unreachable goal in social life.
Hey metaphysics seminar is on the roof. Just take the elevator up and keep walking until you hit the sidewalk. Anything is true if enough people believe it.
Science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man keeping step with religion and metaphysics; or the state of science is an index of our self-knowledge.
I am not much of a hand at love songs you see I mingle metaphysics with even this but perhaps in this age of Philosophy that may be excused.
I believe in metaphysics. I don't believe in God because I think that is a human simplification of the things we can't explain. But I believe in a greater universe.
To bracket form and finality out of one's investigations as far as reason allows is a matter of method but to deny their reality altogether is a matter of metaphysics.
The difference between physics and metaphysics is not that the practitioners of one are smarter than the practitioners of the other. The difference is that the metaphysicist has no laboratory.
Religion should be disentangled as much as possible from history and authority and metaphysics and made to rest honestly on one's fine feelings on one's indomitable optimism and trust in life.
In metaphysics the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend their lives inside rooms. It is an indoor philosophy.
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.
The neutrality and clarity of an engineering drawing is a better model for teaching about art than all the uncontrollable drivel about the cabbala and metaphysics and the ecstasy of sainthood.
poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw loose universe. It is a mixture if you will of journalism and metaphysics or of science and religion.
There's a power that brings us to things and there's a power that lets us move away from things from people places experiences. And what you learn to do in metaphysics is accept.
I'm a humanist. I'm an observer. I have a very scientific mind. I believe metaphysics and science absolutely blended are more the truth for me. It doesn't work just believing in what somebody says.
Therefore we value the poet. All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopedia or the treatise on metaphysics or the Body of Divinity but in the sonnet or the play.
The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course Professor Cohen how do I know that I exist? The keen old prof replied And who is asking?