“ Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible. ”
- H.L. Mencken- Copy
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“ Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage. ”
- Auguste Comte- Copy
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“ Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. ”
- William James- Copy
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“ Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make. ”
- Gaston Bachelard- Copy
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“ I was thrown out of N.Y.U. my freshman year for cheating on my metaphysics final. You know, I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me. ”
- Woody Allen- Copy
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“ This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers… There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Were we no better than chessmen, moved by an unseen power, vessels the potter fashions at his fancy, for honour or for shame? ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ Omen? omen? — the dictionary! If the gods think to speak outright to man, they will honourably speak outright; not shake their heads, and give an old wives' darkling hint. ”
- Herman Melville- Copy
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“ You know about transmigration of souls; do you know about transposition of epochs — and bodies? ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. ”
- Willa Cather- Copy
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“ You can take away a man's gods, but only to give himothers in return. ”
- Carl Gustav Jung- Copy
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“ The magic of photography is metaphysical. What you see in the photograph isn't what you saw at the time. The real skill of photography is organized visual lying. ”
- Terence Donovan- Copy
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“ A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties. ”
- Karl Marx- Copy
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“ Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man's nature. ”
- Ayn Rand- Copy
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“ Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ I will tell you that there have been no failures in my life. I don't want to sound like some metaphysical queen, but there have been no failures. There have been some tremendous lessons. ”
- Oprah Winfrey- Copy
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“ Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language. ”
- Ludwig Wittgenstein- Copy
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“ Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick. ”
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Copy
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“ Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history. ”
- Albert Camus- Copy
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“ Chicago has a strange metaphysical elegance of death about it. ”
- Claes Oldenburg- Copy
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“ History is powerful stuff. One day your world is fine. The next day it's knocked for a metaphysical loop. Was Napoleon really at Waterloo? Would that change what I had for breakfast? ”
- Henry Bromel- Copy
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“ Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is. ”
- Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire- Copy
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“ Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is. ”
- Voltaire- Copy
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“ Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food. ”
- Robert Maynard Pirsig- Copy
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“ That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it. ”
- Boris Pasternak- Copy
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“ Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck. ”
- Immanuel Kant- Copy
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“ From their experience or from the recorded experience of others men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn. ”
- Aldous Huxley- Copy
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