Metaphysics Quotes - Page 11

• What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Heart, Hopeful

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religious, Fear, Religion

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.139, Tara Publishing

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• Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Birthday, Faith, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Religious, Motherhood

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.72, A&C Black

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• To create a healthy philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophy, Renounce, Should

  "The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell".

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• Aristotle's metaphysics, roughly speaking, may be described as Plato diluted by common sense. He is difficult because Plato and common sense do not mix easily.

  Bertrand Russell

  Plato, Common Sense, May

  Bertrand Russell (2008). “History of Western Philosophy”, p.162, Simon and Schuster

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• No science can be more secure than the unconscious metaphysics which tacitly it presupposes.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Unconscious, Secure

  Alfred North Whitehead (1933). “Adventure of Ideas”

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• When the Reformation became established, one of the things that was a question between Catholicism and the Reformation traditions was whether there was a hierarchy of being. If you look at Thomas Aquinas, for example, you have hierarchies of angels and all the rest of it, and hierarchies even of saints and then subsaints - people who aren't quite there, that sort of thing. The Reformation rejected all of that and created a new metaphysics, in effect, that is not hierarchical.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Angel, People, Example

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The idea that the universe itself is physically structured around hierarchy was sort of an integration of earlier science and theology that was made by people like Thomas Aquinas, that was assumed doctrinally in that tradition. The Reformation rejected that model of reality and created a highly individualistic metaphysics in the sense that it located everything normative that can be said about reality in human perception, there being, of course, no other avenue of knowing. There is Scripture, there is conscience, there is perception itself.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Reality, Knowing, Ideas

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I have found by experience that man makes his plans to be upset by God, but, at the same time, where the ultimate goal is the search of truth, on matter how a man's plans are frustrated the issue is never injurious and often better than anticipated.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Issues, Goal

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.270, Courier Corporation

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• The role of metaphysics in relation to other disciplines, whether philosophical or not and including the natural sciences, is thus a foundational role. Lack of clarity in the concepts of metaphysics implies lack of clarity in other disciplines - both theoretical and practical disciplines - employing those concepts or employing concepts that depend on those of metaphysics.

  Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

  Philosophical, Discipline, Roles

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Knowledge has the form of a tree, and since metaphysics is the most fundamental one of the theoretical disciplines, it represents the roots of the tree.

  Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

  Roots, Discipline, Tree

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• My personal, metaphysical belief is Vedanta, which is that ultimately there is a singular consciousness. It's like a Hindu metaphysics, that basically we're all like characters in a play that consciousness is putting on to discover its own creative capacities.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Character, Play, Creative

  "Interview with Russell Brand, Daniel Pinchbeck, & Graham Hancock". ORIGIN Magazine Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 12, 2012.

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• It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Motivational, Work, Quality Not Quantity

  Mahatma Gandhi (1981). “Young India”

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• Racism does not limit itself to biology or economics or psychology or metaphysics; it attacks along many fronts and in many forms, deploying whatever is at hand, and even what is not, inventing when the need arises.

  Albert Memmi

  Hands, Racism, Psychology

  Albert Memmi (2000). “Racism”, p.78, U of Minnesota Press

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• Logic has its use and metaphysics has its use, but neither of them is of much help in the making of a creed.

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Doctrine, Use, Helping

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• A clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Promise, Religion, Sin

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.36, Courier Corporation

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• It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual.

  Lascelles Abercrombie

  Believe, Mean, Sometimes

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• Perhaps dandruff is the excreta of the mind — the quantity of this material being directly proportional to the amount of reading one indulges in. A book on German metaphysics would thus easily ruin a dress suit.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Book, Reading, Indulge In

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• He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.

  Charles Darwin

  Baboons

  "Evolutionary Writings: including the Autobiographies".

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• In the metaphysical elements of aesthetics the various nonmoral feelings are to be made use of; in the elements of moral metaphysics the various moral feelings of men, according to the differences in sex, age, education, and government, of races and climates, are to be employed.

  Immanuel Kant

  Sex, Men, Differences

  Immanuel Kant (1904). “The Educational Theory of Immanuel Kant”

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• Whenever I see an erring man, I say to myself I have also erred; when I see a lustful man I say to myself, so was I once; and in this way I feel kinship with everyone in the world and feel that I cannot be happy without the humblest of us being happy.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Religion, Way

  Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.73, A&C Black

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• I'm a humanist. I'm an observer. I have a very scientific mind. I believe metaphysics and science absolutely blended are more the truth for me. It doesn't work just believing in what somebody says.

  Meredith Brooks

  Believe, Mind, Humanist

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• Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Education, Building Up, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1962). “True Education”

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• Poetry is essentially the antithesis of Metaphysics: Metaphysics purge the mind of the senses and cultivate the disembodiment of the spiritual; Poetry is all passionate and feeling and animates the inanimate; Metaphysics are most perfect when concerned with universals; Poetry, when most concerned with particulars.

  Samuel Beckett

  Spiritual, Philosophical, Perfect

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