Top 35 Metaphysics Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Metaphysics Quotes from famous people such as Michel de Montaigne, Jochen Zeitz, Erwin Schrodinger, Pooja Bedi, Della Reese, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
Michel de Montaigne
I believe in metaphysics. I don’t believe in God because I think that is a human simplification of the things we can’t explain. But I believe in a greater universe.
Jochen Zeitz
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.
Erwin Schrodinger
I’ve been actively doing a lot of courses and research into healing modalities, alternative therapies, science, physics and metaphysics.
Pooja Bedi
I teach metaphysics and pastor a church.
Della Reese
Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
Robert M. Pirsig
Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
Joseph Joubert
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.
Martin Heidegger
Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.
Swami Sivananda
Culture cannot be separated from politics. The arts, philosophy and metaphysics, religion and the sciences, constitute culture. Politics are the science or art of organizing our relationships to allow for the development of life in society.
Eugene Ionesco
Look, there’s no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.
Fernando Pessoa
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.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.
Huston Smith
The knife of historical relativism… which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.
Wilhelm Dilthey
When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire
That’s metaphysics, my dear fellow. It’s forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won’t take it.
Boris Pasternak
Prison is, indeed, a translation of your metaphysics, ethics, sense of history and whatnot into the compact terms of your daily deportment.
Joseph Brodsky
Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
William James
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.
William Godwin
So Whitehead’s metaphysics doesn’t fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world.
John Polkinghorne
The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear – a literal truth in physics, and a metaphorical one in metaphysics.
Iain McGilchrist
Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.
John Ray
Metaphysics is a science.
Gabriel Marcel
If you’re trained in metaphysics, you don’t see the world as distinct from yourself. You are one with the world.
Marianne Williamson
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Walt Whitman
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.’
Dan Brown
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.
Tanit Phoenix
He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.
Maimonides
It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
Gabriel Marcel
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
I don’t pretend to be an astrophysicist or anything, even though I do read about certain things like metaphysics and cosmology that I’ve always just been really interested in. I don’t pretend to be able to sit down and pontificate on any of these subjects.
Sturgill Simpson
To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of

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.
Wallace Stevens
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
Immanuel Kant
There’s a whole stereotype of the jazz musician that’s into poetry and reading and metaphysics and all that stuff. Really, it’s a sign of someone who’s searching, whose mind is open, looking for answers. Whatever ideas you may come up with, the beautiful thing is the search.
Kamasi Washington
Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
John Adams