METAPHYSICS

Related Subjects: Astrology, Intelligence, Philosophy, Sophistry

1. Metaphysicians are whetstones, on which to sharpen dull intellects.—H. W. BEECHER
   

2. Metaphysics is the anatomy of the soul.—BOUFFLERS
   

3. The metaphysical aim is to rectify our fundamental ideas so as to make them consistent with themselves and adequate to their function.—B. P. BOWNE, Metaphysics
   

4. Metaphysicians are apt to think, with Schelling, that philosophy is not everybody's affair; and if others find their writings useless or superfluous, they reply, with Fichte, that such persons do not belong to those for whom they wrote.—B. P. BOWNE, Metaphysics
   

5. There is an immanent metaphysics in all thinking and in all science. Physics is founded on metaphysics. Its basal ideas are not given in experience, but are metaphysical notions whereby we seek to interpret experience.—B. P. BOWNE,
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6. Metaphysicians can unsettle things, but they can erect nothing. They can pull down a church, but they cannot build a hovel.—RICHARD CECIL
   

7. Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and they do the least work.—C. C. COLTON
   

8. Metaphysicians have been learning their lesson for the last four thousand years; and it is now high time that they should begin to teach us something. Can any of the tribe inform us why all the operations of the mind are carried on with undiminished strength and activity in dreams, except the judgment, which alone is suspended and dormant?—C. C. COLTON
   

9. The metaphysician is not justified in leaving the subjects of the Universe and Life just as they are in this present world; he is to enquire into the possibility of a further interpretation.—W. TUDOR JONES, Metaphysics of Life & Death
   

10. Metaphysics simply means, on the scientific level, the science of general principles or concepts which have been brought into existence by objects perceived in the external world being seen in the form of mental relations.—W. TUDOR JONES, Metaphysics of Life & Death
    

11. The individual who looks beyond the events to the causes that have brought the events into existence, and reads those causes in the light of the events, will obtain a Metaphysic of Nature—a Metaphysic which is an all-important adjunct to a Metaphysic of Life, and which in reality is an actual part of the Metaphysic of Life itself.—W. TUDOR JONES, Metaphysics of Life & Death
    

12. Logic works; metaphysics contemplates.—JOUBERT, Pensees
    

13. Metaphysics is the art of be­wildering oneself methodically.—MICHELET
    

14. Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.—STERNE
    

15. When he that speaks, and he to whom he speaks, neither of them understand what is meant, that is metaphysics.—VOLTAIRE