Quotes: Metaphysics

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

Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological movements of their day.

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.

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.

It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.

Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.

I teach metaphysics and pastor a church.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.