“ 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
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“ Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make. ”
- Gaston Bachelard- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. ”
- William James- Copy
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“ 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
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“ The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang. ”
- Morihei Ueshiba- Copy
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“ Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible. ”
- H.L. Mencken- Copy
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“ 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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“ 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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“ Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent. ”
- Dr. Seuss- Copy
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“ It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself... both and one. A shadow on snow. ”
- Ursula K. Le Guin- 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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“ A metaphysician is a man who goes into a dark cellar at midnight without a light, looking for a black cat that is not there. ”
- Lord Bowen- 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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“ 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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“ 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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“ 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 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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“ The Pentacle — The ancients envisioned their world in two halves — masculine and feminine. Their gods and goddesses worked to keep a balance of power. Yin and Yang. When male and female were balanced, there was harmony in the world. When they were unbalanced there was chaos. ”
- Dan Brown- Copy
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“ Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani. ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson- Copy
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