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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
by Immanuel Kant (Philosopher, German , born in 1724) keywords: dark, lighthouse, many, metaphysics, ocean, philosophic, shores, strewn, without , 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.
by Maimonides (Philosopher, Spanish , born in 1135) keywords: attain, branches, consequently, first, human, lastly, logic, mathematics, metaphysics, must, next, order, perfection, physics, proper, study, their, then, therefore, various , wishes He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.
by Maimonides (Philosopher, Spanish , born in 1135) keywords: become, begins, complete, confused, fall, however, infidelity, into, matters, metaphysics, only, religion , will I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
by Michel de Montaigne (Philosopher, French , born in 1970) keywords: any, metaphysics, more, myself, other, physics, study, subject , than Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
by Robert M. Pirsig (Philosopher, American , born in 1928) keywords: food, give, menu, metaphysics, page, restaurant, thirty, thousand , where So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world.
by John Polkinghorne (Physicist, British , born in 1930) keywords: fit, metaphysics, physics, process, understand, very, well, whitehead , world 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.
by William Winwood Reade (Historian, Scottish , born in 1838) keywords: beautiful, buddhism, catholic, could, mankind, masses, metaphysics, morality, never, only, owed, philosophy, presented, religion, sorrowful, spirit, succeeded, success , system 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.
by Erwin Schrodinger (Scientist, Austrian , born in 1887) keywords: able, been, clear, fact, far, forty, ground, hand, interpretation, less, metaphysical, metaphysics, model, more, other, physicists, physics, provide, quantum, solid, than, verbal , years Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.
by Swami Sivananda (Philosopher, Indian , born in 1887) keywords: argument, beyond, both, go, into, inwardly, lived, metaphysics, only, outwardly, real, region, religion , science Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.
by Huston Smith (Theologian, American , born in 1919) keywords: dark, into, lured, metaphysics, new, newtonian, rationalism, rescue, science, us , woods 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.
by Wallace Stevens (Poet, American , born in 1879) keywords: artifice, extent, imagination, life, live, metaphysics, mind, part, realize, regard , think