“ A metaphysician is a man who goes into a dark cellar at midnight without a light, looking for a black cat that is not there. ”
- Lord Bowen- Copy
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“ My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious. ”
- Karl Kraus- Copy
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“ A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians. ”
- William James- Copy
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“ A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what by two, what by makes, and what by four. For asking such questions metaphysicians are supported in oriental luxury in the universities, and respected as educated and intelligent men. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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