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No science can be more secure than the unconscious metaphysics which tacitly it presupposes.

No science can be more secure than the unconscious metaphysics which tacitly it presupposes.

Alfred North Whitehead
Metaphysics, Unconscious, Secure
Alfred North Whitehead (1933). “Adventure of Ideas”

Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind.

Thomas Carlyle
Mind, Rise Above, Metaphysics
Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.89, CUP Archive

Metaphysics keeps surviving its obituaries.

Mason Cooley
Metaphysics, Obituary, Surviving

Quand celui à qui l'on parle ne comprend pas et celui qui parle ne se comprend pas, c'est de la métaphysique When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.

Voltaire
Doe, Speak, Metaphysics

Metaphysics is the science of proving what we don't understand.

Josh Billings
Metaphysics, Prove
Josh Billings (1953). “Uncle Sam&s uncle Josh”

Without forgiveness, metaphysics are useless.

Gary Renard
Useless, Metaphysics
Gary R. Renard (2010). “The Disappearance of the Universe”, p.353, ReadHowYouWant.com

Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Christianity, Metaphysics, Hangman
Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.309, Penguin

Metaphysics must be based on what exists, for it has the task of explicating it.

Franz Grillparzer
Tasks, Metaphysics, Empiricism

There’s enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything.

Fernando Pessoa
Thinking, Enough, Metaphysics
Fernando Pessoa (2012). “A Centenary Pessoa”, p.87, Carcanet

Metaphysics is a cobweb that the mind weaves around things.

Edward Abbey
Mind, Cobwebs, Metaphysics
Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.11, RosettaBooks

I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people.

Arthur Schopenhauer
People, Metaphysics
Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.140, Oxford University Press

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