Metaphysics Quotes

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. (Walt Whitman)
Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
When I was in school, I cheated on my metaphysics exam I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me. View quote
Woody Allen
Logic works, metaphysics contemplates. View quote
Joseph Joubert
A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality. View quote
William Winwood Reade
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. View quote
Wallace Stevens
Look, there's no metaphysics on earth but chocolates. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct. View quote
F. H. Bradley
I think metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life; otherwise forget it. View quote
Robert M. Pirsig
Metaphysics is names about reality. Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty-thousand-page menu and no food. View quote
Robert M. Pirsig
Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological movements of their day. (Wilhelm Dilthey)
Mathematics is the only true metaphysics. View quote
William Thomson
Madame de Staël thought it was pride in mankind to endeavour to penetrate the secret of the universe; and speaking of the higher metaphysics she said: "I prefer the Lord's Prayer to it all." View quote
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
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. View quote
Benjamin Constant
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. View quote
Maimonides
The metaphysical apologia at least betrayed the injustice of the established order through the incongruence of concept and reality. The impartiality of scientific language deprived what was powerless of the strength to make itself heard and merely provided the existing order with a neutral sign for itself. Such neutrality is more metaphysical than metaphysics. View quote
Theodor Adorno
The metaphysics of substance. The strange feeling which comes over us when we sense: this is skin – this is bone – all in a single vision that is completely unearthly. The dreaminess of our existence mixed at the same time with the indescribably sweet illusion of reality. View quote
Max Beckmann
It has never been in my power to study anything, mathematics, ethics, metaphysics, gravitation, thermodynamics, optics, chemistry, comparative anatomy, astronomy, psychology, phonetics, economics, the history of science, whist, men and women, wine, metrology, except as a study of semeiotic . View quote
Charles Sanders Peirce
The moral truth here is obvious: anyone who feels that the interests of a blastocyst just might supersede the interests of a child with a spinal cord injury has had his moral sense blinded by religious metaphysics. View quote
Sam Harris
I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it. (Boris Pasternak)
The way towards 'wisdom' or towards 'freedom' is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition of metaphysics. View quote
Mircea Eliade
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. Some of their most esteemed inventions have no other apparent purpose - for example, the dinner party of more than two, the epic poem, and the science of metaphysics. View quote
H. L. Mencken
Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly. View quote
Swami Sivananda
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. View quote
Daniel J. Boorstin