William Godwin

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.

English Writer

Wallace Stevens

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.

American Poet

Tanit Phoenix

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.

South African Model

John Adams

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

American President

Voltaire

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

French Writer

Marianne Williamson

If you're trained in metaphysics, you don't see the world as distinct from yourself. You are one with the world.

American Author

John Polkinghorne

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

British Physicist

Boris Pasternak

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

Russian Novelist

Michel de Montaigne

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

French Philosopher

Walt Whitman

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

Metaphysics deals with abstract concepts, not tangible items.

Not Physical

Metaphysics addresses fundamental questions about existence and the universe.

Big Questions

Metaphysics is studied academically and may include difficult theories.

Academic Subject

Metaphysics involves thinking about ideas that are not observed directly.

Conceptual

Metaphysics goes beyond what can be captured by the five senses.

Beyond Senses

Metaphysics values the power of thoughts more than material objects.

Thoughts Over Objects

 suggested that numbers were the building blocks of the Universe and part of this belief was that everything from cosmology and metaphysics to music and morals followed eternal rules describable as ratios of numbers.

Making sense of...

 Feats of such modest valor, who would suspect them to be exercises in an intimate, fierce discipline, a metaphysics of being relentlessly aware? Such understated power here,

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