best quotations about
Metaphysics |
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Quotations
 | In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors. — William Blake, 1757-1827, English poet & painter 10 likes |
| If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite. — William Blake, 1757-1827, English poet & painter 8 likes |
 | Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless. — Eugene Ionesco, 1912-1994, French-Romanian playwright 8 likes |
 | We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen. — Calvin Coolidge, 1872-1933, American President [1923-1929] 6 likes |
 | The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence. — Nikola Tesla, 1856-1943, Serbian-American inventor 6 likes |
 | Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 5 likes |
 | We came whirling out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust… The stars made a circle, and in the middle, we dance. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 5 likes |
 | Mysticism is the metaphysics of idiots. — Theodore Adorno, 1903-1969, German philosopher 5 likes |
 | The difference between physics and metaphysics is not that the practitioners of one are smarter than the practitioners of the other. The difference is that the metaphysicist has no laboratory. — Carl Sagan, 1934-1996, American astronomer 4 likes |
| Mystical explanations are considered deep; the truth is, they are not even shallow. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 3 likes |
 | Music is the occult metaphysical exercise of a soul not knowing that it philosophizes. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 3 likes |
 | Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food. — Robert M. Pirsig, 1928-2017, American writer 3 likes |
| I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 2 likes |
 | Metaphysics has as the proper object of its inquiries three ideas only: God, freedom, and immortality. — Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804, German philosopher 2 likes |
 | The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. |
 | That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher |
 | There is the real and there is the unreal. Beyond the real and beyond the unreal, there is the deep. |
 | I decided many times to go into metaphysics, but I was interrupted by happiness. |
 | Don't look for miracles. You yourself are the miracle. |
 | “Things have a life of their own,” the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. “It's simply a matter of waking up their souls.” |
 | All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again. |
 | Invisible things are the only realities. |
 | The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. |
 | There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical. |
Quotes in Verse
| Only when Eternity takes Time by the hand, Only when infinity weds the finite's thought, Can man be free from himself and live with God. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher |
Funny Quotes
 | Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 6 likes |
 | 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, 1935-, American actor & film director 3 likes |
