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A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.

William James

Metaphysics
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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

Metaphysics
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Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.

Voltaire

Metaphysics
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Grab reality by the balls and squeeze.

Janet Morris

Metaphysics, Ontology, Life, Free will
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I was thrown out of N.Y.U. my freshman year for cheating on my metaphysics final. You know, I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me.

Woody Allen

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

F. H. Bradley

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

William James

Metaphysics
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So well do I love you, I go to my god singing your praises. When I meet my father, I will tell him I fought beside you.

Janet Morris

Metaphysics, Love, Religion, Courage, Death, Ontology, Faith, Honour, Male bonding, Sacrifice, Religion, Brotherhood, Love between men, Sacred Band Ethos, Polytheism, Platonic Love, Afterlife, Homosexuality More
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The most heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together; nature and art are ransacked for illustrations, comparisons, and allusions; their learning instructs, and their subtlety surprises; but the reader commonly thinks his improvement dearly bought and, though he sometimes admires, is seldom pleased.

Samuel Johnson

Metaphysics
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Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.

Gaston Bachelard

Metaphysics
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When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.

Voltaire

Metaphysics

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A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.

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.

Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.

Grab reality by the balls and squeeze.

I was thrown out of N.Y.U. my freshman year for cheating on my metaphysics final. You know, I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me.

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

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

So well do I love you, I go to my god singing your praises. When I meet my father, I will tell him I fought beside you.

Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.

When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.