Quotes About Metaphysics

In true metaphysics I believe that, contrary to common opinion, unbelief far oftener needs a reason and requires an effort than belief.

We are as solid as most truly false things are--a dance of particles in space. Only the things no one can touch are true...

the concept of eternity must not be grasped as if it were suspended time, or in any case not in the sense that eternity would come after time, for this would turn eternity into the future, in other words into a moment of time. And the concept of eternity must also not be understood in the sense of a negation of time, so that it would be merely an abstraction of time. For time in its concept is, like the concept itself generally, eternal, and therefore also absolute presence.

No authentic conservative metaphysic can be operable when the discipline of God and the discipline of the soul have been ceded to the doxai, the dialectical structures and superstructures of modern life.

What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.

A]ny being with the supposed capacity to create the logically impossible must himself be logically impossible.

Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.

Time, matter, space - all, it may be, are no more than a point.

If there ever was a time that nothing existed, then nothing would exist now

If there ever was a time when absolutely nothing existed, all there could possibly be now is nothing.

A metaphysics is a great help in rationalizing scruple-driven behavior.

To confront the metaphysics I have created for myself, in accordance with the void I carry within me.

The devotee of myth is in a way a philosopher, for myth is made up of things that cause wonder. (Metaphysics, I, 982b 18–19)

si el alma se encuentra en todo cuerpo dotado de sensibilidad y si además suponemos que el alma es un cuerpo, necesariamente habrá dos cuerpos en el mismo lugar.

those who inquire into the number of existents: for they inquire whether the ultimate constituents of existing things are one or many, and if many, whether a finite or an infinite plurality.

For none of the others can exist independently: substance alone is independent: for everything is predicated of substance as subject.

If, then, 'substance' is not attributed to anything, but other things are attributed to it, how does 'substance' mean what is rather than what is not?

Now to investigate whether Being is one and motionless is not a contribution to the science of Nature.

For if Being is just one, and one in the way mentioned, there is a principle no longer, since a principle must be the principle of some thing or things.

Being will not have magnitude, if it is substance. For each of the two parts must be in a different sense.

It is, (10) then, clearly impossible for Being to be one in this sense.

Lastly (4) in each of his infinite bodies there would be already present infinite flesh and blood and brain—having a distinct existence, however, from one another, and no less real than the infinite bodies, and each infinite: which is contrary to reason.

Existentia nunquam ad essentiam rei pertinent.

At the present time there still exist many doctrines which choose to leave in the shadow certain troubling aspects of a too complex situation. But their attempt to lie to us is in vain. Cowardice does not pay. Those reasonable metaphysics, those consoling ethics with which they would like to entice us only accentuate the disorder from which we suffer.