#metaphysic

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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Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage. ↗

— Auguste Comte

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In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me. ↗

— John Fowles

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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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Metaphysical thinking will always no doubt be a strong element in her mentality, and it is to be hoped that she will never lose her great, her sovereign powers in that direction. ↗

— Sri Aurobindo

#direction #doubt #element #great #her

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

#extent #imagination #life #live #metaphysics

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

— Gabriel Marcel

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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

#metaphysics #physics #process #understand #very

There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that only the novel can seize. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#grasp #how #human #human existence #known

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

#been #clear #fact #far #far less