Quotes of: Metaphysics Keyword

There’s enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything.

The Keeper of Sheep

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.

Robert M. Pirsig

All good children's books, I think, address metaphysical issues in some kind of way.

Duane Michals

Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages.

Benjamin Whorf

One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.

Arthur Koestler

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

Immanuel Kant

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

John Adams

He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.

Maimonides

Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.

Swami Sivananda

Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.

Huston Smith

Literature is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments.

Life

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

Voltaire

I'm only a girl with metaphysical soles.

The Girl from Ipanema 1963/1982

Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is.

Martha Beck

The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.

Wilhelm Dilthey

I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content.

Arthur Boyd

I study myself more than any other subject; it is my metaphysic, and my physic.

William Drummond

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

William James

Do not commit spiritual suicide through a passion for discussing metaphysical subtleties.

All of Grace

Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.

The Fountainhead

To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics.

Martin Heidegger