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Quotes about Metaphysics


The more I study physics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics.

Albert Einstein

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

Walt Whitman

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

Francis H. Bradley

That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.

Boris Pasternak

My studies in Speculative philosophy, metaphysics, and science are all summed up in the image of a mouse called man running in and out of every hole in the Cosmos hunting for the Absolute Cheese.

Benjamin DeCasseres

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy next to me.

Woody Allen

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

Francis H. Bradley

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

Robert M. Pirsig

When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.

Robert M. Voltaire

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

Walt Whitman

To gauge the understanding and insight that metaphysics provides is to ask whether, in the final analysis, it helps us to cope with our world and harmonize our existence with nature, humanity, and ourselves, and leads to greater freedom and self-realization. Metaphysics is only the beginning. The end is human progress.

Rudolph Rummel

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