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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• Metaphysics is the science of proving what we don't understand.

  Josh Billings

  Prove

  Josh Billings (1953). “Uncle Sam&s uncle Josh”

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

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Motivational

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

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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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• Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

  William James

  Mean, Thinking, Effort

  1890 The Principles of Psychology, ch.6.

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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 guess I wouldn't believe in anything if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch.

  Steve Martin

  Believe, Astrology, Watches

  "Steve Martin: A Wild and Crazy Guy", 1978.

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• Metaphysics is a science.

  Gabriel Marcel

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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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• 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

  Religious, Hands, Movement

  Wilhelm Dilthey, Rudolf A. Makkreel, Frithjof Rodi (1991). “Introduction to the Human Sciences”, p.59, Princeton University Press

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• Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Giving, Atheism, Pages

  Robert M. Pirsig (1991). “LILA An Inquriry into Morals”

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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 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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• Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.

  John Ray

  Arithmetic, Algebra

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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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• 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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• When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is Metaphysics.

  Voltaire

  Philosophy, Science, Doe

  "Dictionnaire Philosophique". Book by Voltaire (translated), June 1764.

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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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• 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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• Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken, is a science, or complement of sciences, exclusively occupied with mind.

  Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

  Taken, Mind, Term

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• The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Promise, Mathematics

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.164

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• The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.

  Wilhelm Dilthey

  Healing, Cutting, Knives

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