Gabriel Marcel
Philosopher, Playwright
"It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics."
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Metaphysics
36 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Karl Kraus
Playwright, Journalist
"Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics."
Isaac Newton
Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer
"Physics, beware of metaphysics."
Anton Chekhov
Playwright, Short Story Writer
"The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it."
Arthur Schopenhauer
Philosopher
"Religion is the metaphysics of the masses."
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"He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke."
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"[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's."
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"Metaphysics is a science."
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"Vedanta is the most impressive metaphysics the human mind has conceived."
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"I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics."
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"Logic works, metaphysics contemplates."
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"Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them."
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"One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers."
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"To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics."
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"No science can be more secure than the unconscious metaphysics which tacitly it presupposes."
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"Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind."
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"Metaphysics is a cobweb that the mind weaves around things."
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"I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people."
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"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."
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"There’s enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything."
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"Without forgiveness, metaphysics are useless."
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"Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman."
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