Quotes with metaphysics

  • The difference between physics and metaphysics is not that the practitioners of one are smarter than the practitioners of the other. The difference is that the metaphysicist has no laboratory.

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  • Voltaire When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Walt Whitman A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Walt Whitman A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • William Winwood Reade A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.
    William Winwood Reade
    British historian (1838 - 1875)
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  • Voltaire Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Woody Allen 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
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • Woody Allen 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.
    Woody Allen
    American movie director and actor (1935 - )
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  • John Adams Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Joseph Joubert Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • Giambattista Vico 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
    Italian philosopher, historian (1668 - 1744)
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  • Francis H. Bradley Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
    Francis H. Bradley
    British Philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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  • William James Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Boris Pasternak That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Carl Sagan The difference between physics and metaphysics is not that the practitioners of one are smarter than the practitioners of the other. The difference is that the metaphysicist has no laboratory.
    Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (2011) 64
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Wallace Stevens 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
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Robert M. Pirsig Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
    Robert M. Pirsig
    American writer and philosopher (1928 - 2017)
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