One has to recognize that science is not metaphysics, and certainly not mysticism; it can never bring us the illumination and the satisfaction experienced by one enraptured in ecstasy. Science is sobriety and clarity of conception, not intoxicated vision.
I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people.
According to metaphysics, fear is caused by the lack of light.
Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
The business and design of the Royal Society is: To improve the knowledge of naturall things, and all useful Arts, Manufactures, Mechanic practices, Engines and Inventions by Experiments-(not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysics, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetoric or Logick).
I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.
To create a good philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician.
It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.
There’s enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything.
Laughter is the real religion. Everything else is just metaphysics.
Newspapers have roughly the same relationship to life as fortune-tellers to metaphysics.
Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.
The mystery of sound is mysticism; the harmony of life is religion. The knowledge of vibrations is metaphysics, the analysis of atoms is science, and their harmonious grouping is art. The rhythm of form is poetry, and the rhythm of sound is music. This shows that music is the art of arts and the science of allsciences; and it contains the fountain of all knowledge within itself.
Mathematics is the only good metaphysics.
The neutrality and clarity of an engineering drawing is a better model for teaching about art than all the uncontrollable drivel about the cabbala and metaphysics and the ecstasy of sainthood.
Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible.
Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.
My aim is to be understood by everyone. I reject the 'depth' that people demand nowadays, into which you can never descend without a diving bell crammed with cabbalistic bullshit and intellectual metaphysics. This expressionistic anarchy has got to stop. . . A day will come when the artist will no longer be this bohemian, puffed-up anarchist but a healthy man working in clarity within a collectivist society.
The bible is a source of great inspiration to me. It is a textbook of metaphysics. Within the bible are keys to personal growth, and lessons in personal actualization. The bible is a spiritual masterpiece.