Metaphysics quotes

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◆ In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

- Terry Pratchett100

◆ I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of another boy.

- Woody Alle100

◆ 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 Stevens99

◆ If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.

- Woody Allen99

◆ Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.

- John Ray99

◆ Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.

- Robert M Pirsig99

◆ Metaphysics is a science.

- Gabriel Marcel99

◆ Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological movements of their day.

- Wilhelm Dilthey99

◆ He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.

- Maimonides99

◆ Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.

- Maimonides99

◆ Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

- Joseph Joubert99

◆ Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.

- F H Bradley99

◆ A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

- Walt Whitman99

◆ Religion is the metaphysics of the masses

- Arthur Schopenhauer99

◆ Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.

- Arthur Schopenhauer99