Metaphysics Quotes - Page 11

• Hinduism is wholly free from the strange obsession of some faiths that the acceptance of a particular religious metaphysics is necessary for salvation, and non-acceptance thereof is a heinous sin meriting eternal punishment in hell.

  Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

  Religious, Acceptance, Punishment

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• The so-called Philosophy of India is even more blowsy and senseless than the metaphysics of the West. It is at war with everything we know of the workings of the human mind, and with every sound idea formulated by mankind. If it prevailed in the whole modern world we'd still be in the Thirteenth Century; nay, we'd be back among the Egyptians of the pyramid age. Its only coherent contribution to Western thought has been theosophy-and theosophy is as idiotic as Christian Science. It has absolutely nothing to offer a civilized white man.

  H. L. Mencken

  Christian, Philosophy, War

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• The instinct of revenge is the force which constitutes the essence of what we call psychology, history, metaphysics and morality. The spirit of revenge is the genealogical element of our thought, the transcendental principle of our way of thinking.

  Gilles Deleuze

  Revenge, Thinking, Essence

  Gilles Deleuze (2006). “Nietzsche and Philosophy”, p.32, A&C Black

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• The exposé, the compassion and outrage, of documentary fueled by the dedication to reform has shaded over into combinations of exoticism, tourism, voyeurism, psychologism and metaphysics, trophy hunting - and careerism.

  Martha Rosler

  Compassion, Dedication, Hunting

  Martha Rosler (2004). “Decoys and Disruptions: Selected Writings, 1975-2001”, p.178, MIT Press

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• It's progress I think, that science has joined philosophy, metaphysics & religion as subjects drunk people argue about in bars.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Philosophy, Thinking, People

  Twitter post from Aug 7, 2011

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• Those who take knowledge to be a whole zoo of sub-disciplines will react to my giving metaphysics a privileged position in that zoo or to my thinking of knowledge as a tree, with more and less fundamental parts.

  Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

  Zoos, Thinking, Discipline

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Epistemology now flourishes with various complementary approaches. This includes formal epistemology, experimental philosophy, cognitive science and psychology, including relevant brain science, and other philosophical subfields, such as metaphysics, action theory, language, and mind. It is not as though all questions of armchair, traditional epistemology are already settled conclusively, with unanimity or even consensus. We still need to reason our way together to a better view of those issues.

  Ernest Sosa

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Views

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Kantian ethical theory distinguishes three levels: First, that of a fundamental principle (the categorical imperative, formulated in three main ways in Kant's Groundwork); second, a set of duties, not deduced from but derived from this principle, by way of its interpretation or specification, its application to the general conditions of human life - which Kant does in the Doctrine of virtue, the second main part of the Metaphysics of Morals; and then finally an act of judgment, through which these duties are applied to particular cases.

  Allen W. Wood

  Principles, Doe, Doctrine

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Kant's treatments of rational theology and metaphysics were aimed primarily at theoretical questions. His attitude toward the pseudo-sciences of "special metaphysics" in Wolff and Baumgarten was always double-edged. He did see them as pseudo-sciences but also valued their doctrinal value and especially their regulative value for the empirical sciences. Like his views about religion, I don't think any of this is any longer viable in its original form.

  Allen W. Wood

  Attitude, Thinking, Views

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• Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Education, Building Up, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “True Education”

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• He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.

  Charles Darwin

  Baboons

  "Evolutionary Writings: including the Autobiographies".

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• In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Attitude

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, p.55, North Atlantic Books

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• Whenever I see an erring man, I say to myself I have also erred; when I see a lustful man I say to myself, so was I once; and in this way I feel kinship with everyone in the world and feel that I cannot be happy without the humblest of us being happy.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Religion, Way

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.73, A&C Black

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• I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of clay in the Potter's divine hands so that my service may become more certain because uninterrupted by the baser self in me.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hands, Self, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.115, Courier Corporation

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• I have found by experience that man makes his plans to be upset by God, but, at the same time, where the ultimate goal is the search of truth, on matter how a man's plans are frustrated the issue is never injurious and often better than anticipated.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Issues, Goal

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.270, Courier Corporation

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• A clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Promise, Religion, Sin

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.36, Courier Corporation

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• Perhaps dandruff is the excreta of the mind — the quantity of this material being directly proportional to the amount of reading one indulges in. A book on German metaphysics would thus easily ruin a dress suit.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Book, Reading, Indulge In

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• In the metaphysical elements of aesthetics the various nonmoral feelings are to be made use of; in the elements of moral metaphysics the various moral feelings of men, according to the differences in sex, age, education, and government, of races and climates, are to be employed.

  Immanuel Kant

  Sex, Men, Differences

  Immanuel Kant (1904). “The Educational Theory of Immanuel Kant”

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• Logic has its use and metaphysics has its use, but neither of them is of much help in the making of a creed.

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Doctrine, Use, Helping

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• Poetry is essentially the antithesis of Metaphysics: Metaphysics purge the mind of the senses and cultivate the disembodiment of the spiritual; Poetry is all passionate and feeling and animates the inanimate; Metaphysics are most perfect when concerned with universals; Poetry, when most concerned with particulars.

  Samuel Beckett

  Spiritual, Philosophical, Perfect

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• The business and design of the Royal Society is: To improve the knowledge of naturall things, and all useful Arts, Manufactures, Mechanic practices, Engines and Inventions by Experiments-(not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysics, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetoric or Logick).

  Robert Hooke

  Art, Practice, Design

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• Metaphysics notwithstanding, I also insert myself in my fictions for no loftier purpose than to give me pleasure: to see myself performing onstage.

  Norman Lock

  Giving, Purpose, Fiction

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm not sure if Cupitt himself still uses this term, but it's useful in suggesting that, actually, there are more choices than the choice between nihilism and faith. In fact, the issue may not be faith as such but the fact that for millennia, Christianity has buttressed itself with a particular kind of metaphysics that has now seemingly reached the end of its life-span. But perhaps Buddhist metaphysics could provide an alternative here - or, at least, offer a direction of travel.

  George Pattison

  Buddhist, Issues, Choices

  "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

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• The role of metaphysics in relation to other disciplines, whether philosophical or not and including the natural sciences, is thus a foundational role. Lack of clarity in the concepts of metaphysics implies lack of clarity in other disciplines - both theoretical and practical disciplines - employing those concepts or employing concepts that depend on those of metaphysics.

  Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

  Philosophical, Discipline, Roles

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Knowledge has the form of a tree, and since metaphysics is the most fundamental one of the theoretical disciplines, it represents the roots of the tree.

  Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

  Roots, Discipline, Tree

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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