Metaphysical Quotes

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage.

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

To achieve contact with reality is not to transport oneself elsewhere, it is not transcendence but thorough immersion in one's surroundings. A reality which is neither purely physical nor metaphysical, but both at once.

Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.

Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.

I have come to the conclusion that Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical research programme.

Experimental psychology itself has, it is true, now and again suffered relapse into a metaphysical treatment of its problems.

Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.

What I am trying to do is to unmuddle the metaphysical.

It is in this mutual dependence of the functions and the aid which they reciprocally lend one another that are founded the laws which determine the relations of their organs and which possess a necessity equal to that of metaphysical or mathematical laws, since it is evident that the seemly harmony between organs which interact is a necessary condition of existence of the creature to which they belong and that if one of these functions were modified in a manner incompatible with the modifications of the others the creature could no longer continue to exist.

Mathematics has not a foot to stand upon which is not purely metaphysical.

Art's development should be dialectical and not metaphysical.

There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that only the novel can seize.

What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.

In the American Metaphysical, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.

Ironclads and Maxim guns must be the ultimate arbiters of metaphysical truth.

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

The ultimate metaphysical ground is the creative advance into novelty.

A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.

Correlationism rejects metaphysical realism understood as the claim that the way the world is does not depend on how we take things to be. It also rejects the Cartesian corollary, i.e., the claim that the way the mind is does not depend on the way the world is.

That which is communicated, i.e., understood, is metaphysical. The means of communication is physical.

There will be well-testable theories, hardly testable theories, and non-testable theories. Those which are non-testable are of no interest to empirical scientists. They may be described as metaphysical.

The long words are not the hard words, it is the short words that are hard. There is much more metaphysical subtlety in the word "damn" than in the word "degeneration."

Naturalism is a methodological rather than a metaphysical view. It's because I am a naturalist, actually, that I am sceptical about physicalism.

Attaching a Creator to the boundary is metaphysical skullduggery.