Metaphysics Quotes

• Our mania for rational explanations obviously has its roots in our fear of metaphysics, for the two were always hostile brothers. Hence, anything unexpected that approaches us from the dark realm is regarded either as coming from outside and, therefore, as real, or else as a hallucination and, therefore, not true. The idea that anything could be real or true which does not come from outside has hardly begun to dawn on contemporary man.

  Carl Jung

  Brother, Real, Dark

  Carl Gustav Jung (1964). “Civilization in transition”

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• Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

  Joseph Joubert

  Math, Logic, Contemplating

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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• He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.

  Maimonides

  Fake People, Confused, Fall

  Moses Maimonides (2016). “Guide for the perplexed”, p.290, Moses Maimonides

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• Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality.

  Carl Sagan

  God, Spiritual, Philosophy

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.54, Ballantine Books

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• I acknowledge that four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what our soul is.

  Voltaire

  Soul, Four, Volume

  "Voltaire – The Philosophical Works".

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• I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.

  Woody Allen

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

  Audio CD "Woody Allen: Stand-Up Comic 1964-1968", 1999.

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• Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.

  Sivananda

  Real, Religion, Argument

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• It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Attributed to Aristotle in "Religion and the Pursuit of Truth" by Lowell Lindsay Bennion, p. 52, 1959.

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

  Michel de Montaigne

  Study, Physics, Subjects

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• Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?

  Dennis Prager

  Taken, Order, Things In Life

  Dennis Prager (2009). “Happiness Is a Serious Problem: A Human Nature Repair Manual”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Motivational

  "Science, Philosophy, and Religion" (1940).

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• All is divine, all is God, and unity is divinity.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Unity, Divinity, Divine

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• 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.

  William James

  Pain, Spring, Loss

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.140, Courier Corporation

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

  Walt Whitman

  Beauty, Nature, Morning

  Walt Whitman “Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• 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.

  Aristotle

  Essence, Substance, Study

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

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Philosophy, Believe, Reason

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• The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Hands, Years, Able

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• Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

  Immanuel Kant

  Philosophy, Ocean, Philosophical

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• Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

  John Adams

  Freedom, Power, Self

  John Adams, George A. Peek, Jr. (2003). “The Political Writings of John Adams: Representative Selections”, p.196, Hackett Publishing

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

  F. H. Bradley

  Believe, Reason, Instinct

  Appearance and Reality (1893) preface

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

  Boris Pasternak

  Doctors, Dear God, Stomach

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• 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.

  Maimonides

  Order, Perfection, Wish

  Moses Maimonides (2016). “Guide for the perplexed”, p.298, Moses Maimonides

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• I teach metaphysics and pastor a church.

  Della Reese

  Teaching, Church, Pastor

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• 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.

  Wallace Stevens

  Life, Thinking, Imagination

  Wallace Stevens (1997). “Collected Poetry and Prose”

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• 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.

  H. L. Mencken

  Philosophy, Mean, Intelligent

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