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Metaphysical Quotes - Page 2

Brain deals exclusively with the physical, and mind exclusively with the metaphysical.

R. Buckminster Fuller (2008). “Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth”, p.107, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

I don't feel there is any spiritual or metaphysical justification for turning our backs on human suffering.

"Holistic Politics: A Conversation with Marianne Williamson". Interview with Scott London, www.scottlondon.com. 1999.

For to love is to give what one is, his very being, in the most absolute, the most brazenly metaphysical, the least phenomenalizable sense of this word.

Jacques Maritain (2013). “The Peasant of the Garonne: An Old Layman Questions Himself about the Present Time”, p.9, Wipf and Stock Publishers

A metaphysical conclusion is either a false conclusion or a concealed experimental conclusion.

Hermann von Helmholtz, David Cahan (1995). “Science and Culture: Popular and Philosophical Essays”, p.326, University of Chicago Press

To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction.

Fernando Pessoa (1996). “The Book of Disquietude: By Bernardo Soares, Assistant Bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon”

The world is full of burled and gnarly knobs on which you can hang a metaphysical system. If you must.

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.9, RosettaBooks

Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations.

Edmund Burke, James BURKE (Barrister-at-Law.) (1854). “The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke”, p.115