Metaphysical Philosophy Quotes

#1. The spontaneous tendency to invoke a Final Cause in explanation of every difficulty is characteristic of metaphysical philosophy. It arises from a general tendency towards the impersonation of abstractions which is visible throughout History.

George Henry Lewes

#2. From the scientific view, the theory of karma may be a metaphysical assumption
but it is no more so than the assumption that all of life is material and originated out of pure chance

Dalai Lama XIV

#3. I've always hated the "Who are you?" question. This is a philosophical inquiry. Answering that question is why we're on earth. You can't answer it in thirty seconds or in an elevator.

Sandy Nathan

#4. Do not commit spiritual suicide through a passion for discussing metaphysical subtleties.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#5. Nature does not teach. A true philosophy may sometimes validate an experience of nature; an experience of nature cannot validate a philosophy. Nature will not verify any theological or metaphysical proposition (or not in the manner we are now considering); she will help to show what it means.

C.S. Lewis

#6. The Cabala may be defined to be a system of philosophy which embraces certain mystical interpretations of Scripture, and metaphysical and spiritual beings ... Much use is made of it in the advanced degrees, and entire Rites have been constructed on its principles.

Albert Mackey

#7. Instantaneous interpretation hails from the Limbo that produced unsensed sensibilia, unconscious inference, incorrigible statements, negative facts and Objektive. These are ideas which philosophers force on the world to preserve some pet epistemological or metaphysical theory.

Norwood Russell Hanson

#8. Bouldering isn't really a sport. It's a climbing activity with metaphysical, mystical, and philosophical overtones. -John Gill-

Jon Krakauer

#9. I should have known [ ... ] I am the rain. [ ... ] I am the land [ ... ] and I am the rain. The grass will grow out of me in a little while.

John Steinbeck

#10. What you see is when the government gets involved, you run out of money and health care gets rationed.

Rick Scott

#11. There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that only the novel can seize.

Milan Kundera

#12. To deny the necessity or value of metaphysics is to assert a metaphysical principle, just as to say a religion must be without dogmas is to assert a dogma.

Fulton J. Sheen

#13. He grabbed me and kissed me. The kiss sent a wave of heat from my lips all the way to my toes. Curran's eyes laughed. "For luck," he whispered,

Ilona Andrews

#14. You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

Alan W. Watts

#15. I don't believe in fairy tales. I believe in making my own damn tale.

Nicole Williams

#16. Simply put, DHARMA is Dhya (Aim) mein (unto) raman (walkabout) - Sojourn Unto the [Ultimate] Aim [the Truth of What Is- God].

Fakeer Ishavardas

#17. I love meeting 'the Odd Man Out' - like fans of 'Baywatch' who regret, as I do, that Tower 12 Productions didn't put nearly as much energy into writing and directing the show as they put into photographing and editing it.

Nicole Eggert

#18. Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit.

Haruki Murakami

#19. One's freedom is one's love and one's love
is one's undoing, it's all in the dictionary...

Duncan McNaughton

#20. Have faith in 'What Is'. You will get your due, good or not so good, to your liking or not, but in time, as it is meant to be.

Fakeer Ishavardas

#21. Hate gets no god.

Fakeer Ishavardas

#22. Happiness as un-pin-downable as a louse: you feel the tickle of its passage but your fingers close on nothing.

Emma Donoghue

#23. I finally like myself, at last I like myself.

Harry Chapin

#24. During the long nights in the caves, how many Hamlets must have murmured their endless monologues - for it is likely that the apogee of metaphysical torment is to be located well before that universal insipidity which followed the advent of Philosophy.

Emil M. Cioran

#25. I already felt like the freak of freaks without the added realization that I lacked the basic ability of communicating normally with other human beings.

Alexandra Bracken

#26. Death is Perfection's reflection. One cannot be the other, but without one, the other suffers.

Solange Nicole

#27. A thought, no matter how small and forgotten, always has an eternal impact on the Cosmos. Most times, we can only see the material and just about beyond the immediate, but if we could trace this thought through all Creation... well, it would be a whole universe in itself.

Adriano Bulla

#28. Creativity is just learning to do something with a different perspective.

Benjamin Carson

#29. In fact the problem Leopardi is facing is speculative and metaphysical, a problem in the history of philosophy from Parmenides to Descartes and Kant: the relationship between the idea of infinity as absolute space and absolute time, and our empirical knowledge of space and time.

Italo Calvino

#30. Scientific materialism is neither an implication nor a presupposition of doing science. Rather it is a metaphysical and sometimes religious stance that some people have toward science.

Angus J.L. Menuge

#31. Nothing in our politics is any longer driven or designed by individual humans who have a name and a face; we have sunk from theism into impersonal and depersonalizing deism, a scheme of rule by alien and implacable abstract metaphysical forces.

Kenny Smith

#32. My metaphysical thinking is more in alignment with Plato rather than Aristotle's."


~R. Alan Woods [2013]

R. Alan Woods

#33. What I can and cannot imagine is a psychological fact about me. It is not a deep metaphysical fact about the nature of the universe.

Patricia S. Churchland

#34. Oracle of Delphi:
In my deep mystery I breathe
your fragrance swirling in
your odourless soul
I return your mystery
revealing your destiny deep in
the seed of your God Self

Ramon Ravenswood

#35. We turn from all we know and all we fear.

Stephen King

#36. At heart, women are creatures of darkness all the time.

Robert Aickman

#37. Yeah, I love your hateful messiahs and gods, as I cherish all idiots, and mad dogs.

Fakeer Ishavardas