“ Explaining metaphysics to the nation - / I wish he would explain his explanation. ”
- Lord Byron- Copy
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“ When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics. ”
- Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire- Copy
- 2.5K
“ That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it. ”
- Boris Pasternak- Copy
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“ Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. ”
- William James- Copy
- 699
“ Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct. ”
- Francis Herbert Bradley- Copy
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“ Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food. ”
- Robert Maynard Pirsig- Copy
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“ Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is. ”
- Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible. ”
- H.L. Mencken- Copy
- 967
“ Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck. ”
- Immanuel Kant- Copy
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“ When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics. ”
- Voltaire- Copy
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“ Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is. ”
- Voltaire- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ You can take away a man's gods, but only to give himothers in return. ”
- Carl Gustav Jung- Copy
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“ Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make. ”
- Gaston Bachelard- Copy
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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- Copy
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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- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant. ”
- Lionel Trilling- Copy
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“ A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. ”
- Walt Whitman- Copy
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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- Copy
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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- Copy
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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- Copy
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