(42 quotes found)
“Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is”
Voltaire
“I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.”
Woody Allen
“Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?”
Dennis Prager
“Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.”
Robert M. Pirsig
“To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.”
Wallace Stevens
“A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.”
Walt Whitman
“Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.”
Swami Sivananda
“Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.”
Immanuel Kant
“Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.”
John Ray
“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.”
