Top Metaphysics Quotes
However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century.
Wilhelm Dilthey
To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics.
Martin Heidegger
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Walt Whitman
I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
Michel de Montaigne
That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.
Boris Pasternak
Fernando Pessoa 
Gabriel Marcel 
Walt Whitman 
Voltaire 
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However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century.
Wilhelm Dilthey 
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To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics.
Martin Heidegger
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A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Walt Whitman
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
Michel de Montaigne
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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
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Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
Robert M. Pirsig
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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
F. H. Bradley
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The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model.
Erwin Schrodinger
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So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world.
John Polkinghorne
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