Zitat des Tages über Metaphysik / Metaphysics:
Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
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.
He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.
Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.
Prison is, indeed, a translation of your metaphysics, ethics, sense of history and whatnot into the compact terms of your daily deportment.
Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.
Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.
Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.
The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.
So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world.
To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics.
I teach metaphysics and pastor a church.
The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model.
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.
I was famous in our college for calm and impassionate discussion; for one whole summer, I rose at five and went to bed at midnight, that I might have sufficient time for theology and metaphysics.
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.
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.
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.
I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
My views as an individual ought not to be confused with my views as a scientist - the minute you try to mingle God and science, you get into trouble. Metaphysics has its place, and science has its place; don't mix the two.
However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century.
The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear - a literal truth in physics, and a metaphorical one in metaphysics.
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.
I'm not looking to be a trophy. When not acting, I spend my time studying metaphysics and quantum mechanics to keep my life as grounded as I can.
It's not that prison makes you shed your abstract notions. On the contrary, it pares them down to their most succinct articulations. Prison is, indeed, a translation of your metaphysics, ethics, sense of history and whatnot into the compact terms of your daily deportment.
If you're trained in metaphysics, you don't see the world as distinct from yourself. You are one with the world.
The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go into science, the mushier the ground gets. You start to say, 'Oh, there is an order and a spiritual aspect to science.'