Top 25 Metaphysics Quotes of 36

The way towards 'wisdom' or towards 'freedom' is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition of metaphysics.

The way towards 'wisdom' or towards 'freedom' is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition of metaphysics.

Mircea Eliade

Definitions, Way, Metaphysics

"The Little Book of Romanian Wisdom". Book by Diana Doroftei and Matthew Cross, 2011.

It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.

Gabriel Marcel

Metaphysics, Probity, Concerned

Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.

Karl Kraus

Newspapers, Fortune, Metaphysics

Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

Physics, beware of metaphysics.

Isaac Newton

Physics, Metaphysics

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

Impossible, Call Me, Metaphysics

Emma Curtis Hopkins (2012). “Scientific Christian Mental Practice”, p.8, Jazzybee Verlag

The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.

Anton Chekhov

World, Existentialism, Metaphysics

Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Religion, Mass, Metaphysics

Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “Religion: A Dialogue and Other Essays”, p.6, Cosimo, Inc.

Laughter is the real religion. Everything else is just metaphysics.

Rajneesh

Laughter, Real, Metaphysics

According to metaphysics, fear is caused by the lack of light.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Light, Metaphysics

Metaphysics is a science.

Gabriel Marcel

Metaphysics

[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.

Samuel Butler

Mind, Doe, Metaphysics

Samuel Butler (2008). “The Note-books of Samuel Butler: Easyread Large Edition”, p.105, ReadHowYouWant.com

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.

John Ray

Arithmetic, Algebra, Metaphysics

He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.

Charles Darwin

Baboons, Metaphysics

"Evolutionary Writings: including the Autobiographies".

Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived.

Alfred North Whitehead

Mind, Impressive, Metaphysics

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

Michel de Montaigne

Study, Physics, Metaphysics

Mathematics is the only good metaphysics.

Lord Kelvin

Math, Numbers, Metaphysics

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

Joseph Joubert

Math, Logic, Metaphysics

"The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it.

Thomas de Quincey

Knowledge, Metaphysics

Thomas De Quincey, James Thomas Fields (1854). “De Quincey's Writings: Essays on philosophical writers and other men of letters. 1854-60. [v. 14 stereotyped”, p.103

To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics.

Martin Heidegger

Thinking, Metaphysics, Term

Martin Heidegger, Joan Stambaugh (2002). “On Time and Being”, p.6, University of Chicago Press

Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken, is a science, or complement of sciences, exclusively occupied with mind.

Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

Taken, Mind, Metaphysics

Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Law, Being Me, Metaphysics

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, James MARSH (D.D.) (1829). “Aids to reflection, in the formation of a manly character ... illustrated by select passages ... especially from Archbishop Leighton ... First American, from the first London edition ... Together with a preliminary essay, and additional notes, by James Marsh”, p.397