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Tag Name "Metaphysics" (150)

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I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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But to proceed in this reconciling project with regard to the question of liberty and necessity the most contentious question of metaphysics, the most contentious science.
David Hume
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
Michel de Montaigne
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Madame de Stael thought it was pride in mankind to endeavour to penetrate the secret of the universe and speaking of the higher metaphysics she said: I prefer the Lord's Prayer to it all.
Madame de Stael
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A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.
Mahatma Gandhi
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One has to recognize that science is not metaphysics, and certainly not mysticism it can never bring us the illumination and the satisfaction experienced by one enraptured in ecstasy. Science is sobriety and clarity of conception, not intoxicated vision.
Ludwig von Mises
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Within a Metaphysics of Quality, science is a set of static intellectual patterns describing this reality, but the patterns are not the reality they describe.
Robert M. Pirsig
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The neutrality and clarity of an engineering drawing is a better model for teaching about art than all the uncontrollable drivel about the cabbala and metaphysics and the ecstasy of sainthood.
George Grosz
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There's a limit to my patience with anything that smacks of metaphysics. I squirm at the mention of mind expansion or warm healing energy. I don't like drum circles, public nudity or strangers touching my feet.
Koren Zailckas
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Upon the solution of this problem, or upon sufficient proof of the impossibility of synthetical knowledge a priori, depends the existence or downfall of metaphysics.
Immanuel Kant
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Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind.
Thomas Carlyle
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
Gabriel Marcel
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Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible.
H. L. Mencken
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The most Heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together.
Samuel Johnson
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Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Alan Watts
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[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
Samuel Butler
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To bracket form and finality out of one's investigations as far as reason allows is a matter of method, but to deny their reality altogether is a matter of metaphysics.
David Bentley
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The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.
Anton Chekhov
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In the deep night of metaphysics, all cats look black.
Terry Eagleton
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The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. Some of their most esteemed inventions have no other apparent purpose - for example, the dinner party of more than two, the epic poem, and the science of metaphysics.
H. L. Mencken
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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
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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
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We call metaphysics the Science of Life, because to know pure metaphysics is to renew the life and make death and accident impossible.
Emma Curtis Hopkins
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He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.
Charles Darwin
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