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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.

The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.

However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century.

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.

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.

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

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.

He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.

Metaphysics is a science.

It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.

Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.

So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world.

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.

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.