Metaphysics Quotes

“Esotericism”

“Clairvoyance”

“The Ageless Wisdom Teachings”

“Mathematics is the only true metaphysics.”

“The only way to avoid metaphysics is to avoid thinking.”

“All metaphysical theories are inconclusively vulnerable to positivist attack.”

“The only way to avoid becoming a metaphysician is to say nothing.”

“metaphysics”

“Wikipedia: Metaphysics”

“Philosophy and metaphysics are notorious because of the endless disputes that have always devastated them.”

“the search for necessary truths, truths that are not only true, but they couldn't have been false.  ”

“All disciplines have being as their ultimate material object; but it must be said that metaphysics has it as its formal object.”

“If only these metaphysicians would give their attention to the lengthy discursive processes which lead science to build new intuitions.”

“The metaphysics that still dominates science and enthralls the minds of men is nothing but a metaphor, and a limited one.”

“''Je dirais volontiers des métaphysiciens ce que Scaliger disait des Basques: “on dit qu’ils s’entendent; mais je n’en crois rien.””

“I was thrown out of N.Y.U. my freshman year for cheating on my metaphysics final, you know. I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me.”

“Metaphysics, because it opens out a limitless vista of possibilities, must take care never to lose sight of the inexpressible, which indeed constitutes its very essence.”

“I am quite prepared to say of metaphysicians what Scaliger used to say of the Basques: “People declare that they understand one another, but I don’t believe a word of it.””

“Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of the psyche, and are therefore psychological. ... Whenever the Westerner hears the word “psychological,” it always sounds to him like “only psychological.””

“The objective world of science has nothing in common with the world of things-in-themselves of the metaphysician. The metaphysical world, assuming that it has any meaning at all, is irrelevant to science.”