Metaphysics Quotes

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

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Motivational

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

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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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• Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Law, Being Me, Determine

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, James MARSH (D.D.) (1829). “Aids to reflection, in the formation of a manly character ... illustrated by select passages ... especially from Archbishop Leighton ... First American, from the first London edition ... Together with a preliminary essay, and additional notes, by James Marsh”, p.397

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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 is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.

  Gabriel Marcel

  Probity, Concerned

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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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• 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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• 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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• The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety surprises; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Reading, Thinking

  Samuel Johnson (2009). “Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings”, p.398, Harvard University Press

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• Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Philosophy, Two, Half

  "Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books)". Book by Gaston Bachelard edited by Suzanne Bachelard, 1988.

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• Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.

  John Ray

  Arithmetic, Algebra

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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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• Metaphysics is a science.

  Gabriel Marcel

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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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• 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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• I teach metaphysics and pastor a church.

  Della Reese

  Teaching, Church, Pastor

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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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• 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.

  Giambattista Vico

  Mind, Poetic, Faculty

  Giambattista Vico (1961). “The New Science of Giambattista Vico”

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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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• 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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