Quotes About Metaphysics

Man is not at home in the universe, despite all the efforts of philosophers and metaphysicians to provide a soothing syrup. Thought is still a narcotic. The deepest question is why. And it is a forbidden one. The very asking is in the nature of cosmic sabotage. And the penalty is—the afflictions of Job.

Hey, metaphysics seminar is on the roof. Just take the elevator up and keep walking until you hit the sidewalk. Anything is true if enough people believe it.

Thinking beyond the human condition often transcends us from it.

What is it that makes a person insist passionately on the existence of metaphysical realities that can be neither demonstrated nor refuted? (176)

Agnosticism is no excuse for indecision. If anything, it is a catalyst for action; for in shifting concern away from a future life and back to the present, it demands an ethics of empathy rather than a metaphysics of fear and hope.

René Guénon. Introduction to the Study of Hindu Doctrines. Sophia Perennis: Hillsdale, NY, 2001

Uno, de ningún modo debe, por lo tanto, ceder a la sensación magnificada de angustia, y escapar del temor para retroceder a la seguridad de la vida mezquina y cotidiana. Uno tiene que abrazar al temor y entregarse a él, ya que "el temor que siente el valiente"[16] es el estado emocional que lo prepara para la revelación final. Esa revelación final es la de la verdad de las metafísicas judeocristiana y hegeliana.

Así es que después de abandonar la razón y la lógica, después de experimentar el aburrimiento real y el temor aterrador, develamos el último misterio de los misterios: la nada. Al final, todo es nada y la nada es todo. Con Heidegger, alcanzamos el nihilismo metafísico.

A soul. A soul is nothing. Can you see it, smell it, touch it? No.

The deduction reached by top modern philosophers on this question is that things exist for two reasons: they are either necessary or they were caused.

It's so hard to believe in anything anymore. I mean, it's like, religion, you really can't take it seriously, because it seems so mythological, it seems so arbitrary...but, on the other hand, science is just pure empiricism, and by virtue of its method, it excludes metaphysics. I guess I wouldn't believe in anything anymore if it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch.

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

I'm not certain whether I now believe in predestination or not, but that night I firmly believed in it. The proof had been striking, and regardless of the fact that I had ridiculed our forebears and their complacent astrology, I found myself thinking as they did--but I caught myself in time on this dangerous road, and having made it a rule never to reject anything categorically and never to believe in anything blindly, I cast metaphysics aside and began to watch the ground under my feet.

Erigena's argument holds the key to a theological justification (in other words, a theodicy) of shit.

I am not much of a hand at love songs, you see I mingle metaphysics with even this, but perhaps in this age of Philosophy that may be excused.

This is the basic principle that underlies most religion, psychology, philosophy, and metaphysics. This law says, "Whatever you believe, with conviction, becomes your reality.

The Law of Reversibility in psychology and metaphysics says, "You are more likely to act yourself into feeling a particular way than you are to feel yourself into acting.

And here I want to interject and say that Heidegger is an absolute occasionalist and has no theory of time despite "time" being included in the title Being and Time

the metaphysicist has no laboratory.

I, however, believe that there is at least one philosophical problem, It is the problem of cosmology

Most people who approach true spiritual mastery are not interested in being leaders. At the same time, there are people who are highly visible when, rather than being true masters of spirituality and metaphysics, they are merely exhibiting the symptoms of an extroverted personality.

Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.

The mind does not exist unless leagued with the soul

But as the mind does not exist unless leagued with the soul