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Daniel J Boorstin
: While the easiest way in metaphysics is to condemn all metaphysics as nonsense, the easiest way in morals is to elevate the common practice of the community into a moral absolute.
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Logic works; metaphysics contemplates.
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Jean Cocteau :
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Consider metaphysics as an extension of the physical.
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Boris Pasternak :
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That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.
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Benjamin Jowett :
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Learn just enough of the subject [metaphysics] to enable your mind to get rid of it.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein :
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What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use. #116
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William James :
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Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
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Robert M Pirsig :
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Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
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Voltaire :
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Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.
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Giambattista Vico :
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Metaphysics abstracts the mind from the senses, and the poetic faculty must submerge the whole mind in the senses. Metaphysics soars up to universals, and the poetic faculty must plunge deep into particulars.
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Francis H Bradley :
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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
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The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge.
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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
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A best seller was a book which somehow sold well simply because it was selling well.
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Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge
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The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.
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More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.
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