It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
I acknowledge that four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what our soul is.
Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.
Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
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 a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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.
Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
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.
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.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.
Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.
Metaphysics is a science.
The most Heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together.
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