Metaphysical quotes
44 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start."
"What I am trying to do is to unmuddle the metaphysical."
"There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that only the novel can seize."
"Ironclads and Maxim guns must be the ultimate arbiters of metaphysical truth."
"The ultimate metaphysical ground is the creative advance into novelty."
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"A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility."
"What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use."
"The long words are not the hard words, it is the short words that are hard. There is much more metaphysical subtlety in the word "damn" than in the word "degeneration.""
"The world is full of burled and gnarly knobs on which you can hang a metaphysical system. If you must."
"Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of the psyche, and are therefore psychological. Whenever the Westerner hears the word “psychological,” it always sounds to him like “only psychological."
"I think part of Western metaphysical dualism is, we're always being asked to choose one over the other."
"Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations."
"To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction."
"As I already explaned, I don't have any form. I'm a conceptual metaphysical object."
