Quotes About Metaphysics

I'm not looking to be a trophy. When not acting, I spend my time studying metaphysics and quantum mechanics to keep my life as grounded as I can.

True time is four-dimensional.

Alchemy posed as a sacred science, whereas chemistry came into its own when substances had shed their sacred attributes.

Myth expresses in action and drama what metaphysics and theology define dialectically.

strict mathematical form, with propositions, proofs, corollaries, lemmas, scholiums, and the like. However, the subject matter of metaphysics and of morals is not very satisfactorily

If invisible people eat invisible food does invisible wind blow invisible trees?

He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.

The theologians, the apologists, and their kin the metaphysicians, the high-handed statesmen, and others, no longer interest me. All that has been spoilt for me by the grind of stern reality!

Lyotard remarked that post-Modern artists often function as philosophers. They may deal with issues of metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics, as many influential critics today approach art through philosophy.

At the heart of my metaphysic there is the ultimate question and at the heart of the universe there is the ultimate questioner.

the transformation would be accomplished not in the dimension of time but in that of meaning.

If it be true that there can be no metaphysics transcending human reason, it is no less true that there can be no empirical knowledge that is not already caught and limited by the a priori structure of cognition.

The psychic is a phenomenal world in itself, which can be reduced neither to the brain nor to metaphysics.

A thorough-going empiricist for whom mathematics was a method rather than an explanation, Newton apparently considered any attempt to question the instantaneity of motion as linked with metaphysics, and so avoided framing a definition of it.

Recognizing that geometry is entirely intellectual and independent of the actual description and existence of figures, Fontenelle did not discuss the subject fro the point of view of science or metaphysics as had Aristotle and Leibnez.

Our mania for rational explanations obviously has its roots in our fear of metaphysics, for the two were always hostile brothers. Hence, anything unexpected that approaches us from the dark realm is regarded either as coming from outside and, therefore, as real, or else as a hallucination and, therefore, not true. The idea that anything could be real or true which does not come from outside has hardly begun to dawn on contemporary man.

It makes a great difference by what path we come to a knowledge of certain things. If we begin in our youth with metaphysics and religion we can easily proceed along a series of rational conclusions that will lead us to the immortality of the soul. Not every other path will lead to this, at least not quite so easily.

Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment. Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785)

Human reason, in one sphere of its cognition, is called upon to consider questions, which it cannot decline, as they are presented by its own nature, but which it cannot answer, as they transcend every faculty of the mind.

Immanuel Kant

What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown

Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!

by saying that the former was only concerned with quality, the latter only with quantity, mistook cause for effect.

Human reason goes forth inexorably to such questions as cannot be answered by any experiential use of reason or principles based on it.