"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."
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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."