Quotes About Metaphysics

I live for two things in life: gossip and metaphysics.

They saw her moving quietly back there like a metaphysician in a novel

There's enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything.

That is my morality or my metaphysics or me myself: a passer-by in everything, even my own soul. I belong to nothing, I desire nothing, I am nothing except an abstract centre of impersonal sensations, a sentient mirror fallen from the wall but still turned to reflect the diversity of the world.

metaphysics has always struck me as a prolonged form of latent insanity.

Mas abre os olhos e vê o sol, E já não pode pensar em nada, Porque a luz do sol vale mais que os pensamentos De todos os filósofos e de todos os poetas. A luz do sol não sabe o que faz E por isso não erra e é comum e boa.   Metafísica?

This is my morality, or metaphysics, or me: passer-by of everything, even of my own soul, I belong to nothing, I desire nothing, I am nothing – just an abstract centre of impersonal sensations, a fallen sentient mirror reflecting the world's diversity. I don't know if I'm happy this way. Nor do I care.

I always thought of metaphysics as a prolonged form of latent madness.

I'm talking metaphysics? But all of life is a metaphysics in the darkness, with a vague murmur of the gods and only one way to follow, which is our ignorance of the right way.

I know nothing greater, nor more worthy of the truly great man, than the patient and expressive analysis of the ways in which we don't know ourselves, the conscious recording of the unconsciousness of our conscious states, the metaphysics of autonomous shadows, the poetry of the twilight

irony. I know nothing greater, nor more worthy of the truly great man, than the patient and expressive analysis of the ways in which we don't know ourselves, the conscious recording of the unconsciousness of our conscious states, the metaphysics of autonomous shadows, the poetry of the twilight of disillusion.

De enige houding die een superieur mens past, is koppig doorgaan met iets waarvan hij inziet dat het geen zin heeft, zichzelf onderwerpen aan een discipline waarvan hij weet dat ze vruchteloos is, en steevast filosofische en metafysische normen hanteren waarvan hij aanvoelt dat ze geen betekenis hebben.

Porque soy del tamaño de lo que veo y no del tamaño de mi altura. Frases como estas, que parecen crecer sin voluntad que las hubiera dicho, me limpian de toda la metafísica que añado a mi vida. Después de leerlas, me acerco a mi ventana sobre la calle estrecha, observo el vasto cielo y los muchos astros y soy libre con un esplendor alado cuya vibración me estremece el cuerpo entero.

There's metaphysics enough in not thinking about anything.

That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence.

I want to know why the universe exists, why there is something greater than nothing.

Matter is a term contrary to soul. But nonsoul is its contradictory. Whatever is not soul is nonsoul.

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.

The dualism itself becomes a sort of presupposition or datum; its terms condition the further problem.

Nothing more can be predicated of the Self than its existence.

People criticized Guénon for writing like a bookkeeper of metaphysics, with no enthusiasm, with no heart. They thought he lacked inspiration. But Guénon was simply obeying "the esoteric, and particularly the Rosicrucian precept according to which it was better to talk to every person in their own language.

Jo knew nothing about philosophy or metaphysics of any sort, but a curious excitement, half pleasurable, half painful, came over her, as she listened with a sense of being turned adrift into time and space, like a young balloon out on a holiday.

Qué puede haber más tópico y ramplón que ese afán de ser y no morir? No ha debido de existir ni un solo ser humano, desde el principio de los tiempos, que no haya experimentado alguna vez ese espejismo de hermosura, esa necesidad de permanencia. Hasta los idiotas tienen inquietudes trascendentes y aspiran alguna vez a la eternidad. La metafísica es la más común de las bajas pasiones.

Les métaphysiciens sont des musiciens sans dons musicaux.