Top 22 Quotes About Metaphysician
#1. It has been said that the question, 'Why is there something rather than nothing?' is so profound that it would occur only to a metaphysician, yet so simple that it would occur only to a child.
Jim Holt
#2. I am not a "culture critic" because I am not in any way interested in classifying cultural forms. I am a metaphysician, interested in the life of the forms and their surprising modalities. That is why I have no interest in the academic world.
Marshall McLuhan
#3. That Hegel is a metaphysician, and that he thinks metaphysics is fundamental to philosophy, is plain enough from his definition of philosophy.
Frederick C. Beiser
#4. A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what by two, what by makes, and what by four. For asking such questions metaphysicians are supported in oriental luxury in the universities, and respected as educated and intelligent men.
H.L. Mencken
#5. The earnings of a poet could be reckoned by a metaphysician rather than a bookkeeper.
Edward Dahlberg
#6. You can't be a good economist unless you're also a good psychologist. Or a good engineer without being the right kind of metaphysician.
Aldous Huxley
#7. Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
Gaston Bachelard
#8. The metaphysician reasons deductively out of his own subjectivity. The scientist reasons inductively from the facts of experience.
Jack London
#9. A system of philosophy, or metaphysics, is a union of a world view and a life view in one harmonious, complete, integral conception. In so far as any man strives to attain, by rational inquiry, a consistent and comprehensive view of life and reality, he is a metaphysician.
Joseph Alexander Leighton
#11. No metaphysician has yet shaken the ordinary individual's belief in his own existence. The uncertainties only begin for most of us when we ask what else is.
Evelyn Underhill
#12. Perhaps, after all, the greatest psychologist is not the metaphysician but the novelist.
Walter Besant
#13. When we begin to see each other through what the metaphysician calls, the third eye, we begin to know each other on a level that is beyond what our physical eyes can see.
Marianne Williamson
#14. Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories.
Aldous Huxley
#15. No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.
Charles Caleb Colton
#16. I am no metaphysician, no philosopher, nay, no saint. But I am poor and I love the poor. I see what they call the poor of this country and how many there are who feel for them!
Swami Vivekananda
#18. I don't want to.. you know, fall for you any worse than I already have.
Jenny Han
#19. I try to point my finger,/ but the wind keeps// spinning me around
Daniel Johnston
#20. Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all the emotions of fear and confusion relating to my family.
Eric Clapton
#21. I love playing strong feisty women, I really do, but if you were to ask my husband he'd probably say that I'm very insecure. And actually incredibly malleable, which isn't necessarily a good thing.
Alex Kingston
#22. We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends; this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.
Samuel Johnson
