#metaphysic

Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

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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. ↗

— John Adams

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For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

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I only want to give a metaphysic for my music. ↗

— Gyorgy Ligeti

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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Boris Pasternak

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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

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

— John Polkinghorne

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

— William James

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