465 Quotes About Metaphysics




  • Author Theodor W. Adorno
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    What finite beings say about transcendence is the semblance of transcendence; but as Kant well knew, it is a necessary semblance. Hence the incomparable metaphysical relevance of the rescue of semblance, the object of esthetics.

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  • Author R.G. Collingwood
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    The question what presuppositions underlie the 'physics' or natural science of a certain people at a certain time is a purely historical question as what kind of clothes they wear. And this is the question that metaphysicians have to answer.

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  • Author عَبْدُالبـَارِئْ
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    ..البرزخ~خط فاصل بين عالم الأموات و عالم ذوات الأرواح.. البعدان الوحيدان الذي هو مُثبت وجودهما.. عالم الفناء تطبق فيه قوانين الحياة و الزمان و عالم الأزلية في مالم يره إنس و لا جان..

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  • Author Arthur Schopenhauer
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    In fact, the balance wheel which maintains in motion the watch of metaphysics that never runs down, is the clear knowledge that this world's non-existence is just as possible as its existence."―from_The World as Will and Representation_. Translated from the German by E. F. J. Payne. In Two Volumes, Volume II, p. 171

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