The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.
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.
All is divine, all is God, and unity is divinity.
It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.
When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is Metaphysics.
I guess I wouldn't believe in anything if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch.
Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken, is a science, or complement of sciences, exclusively occupied with mind.
Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.
Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
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.
I teach metaphysics and pastor a church.
A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what by two, what by makes, and what by four. For asking such questions metaphysicians are supported in oriental luxury in the universities, and respected as educated and intelligent men.
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
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.
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.
A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.
It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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.
The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.
So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world.
The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs.
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