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

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.
William Winwood Reade

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.
John Ray

Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological movements of their day.
Wilhelm Dilthey

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.
Maimonides

Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.
Swami Sivananda

He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.
Maimonides

However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century.
Wilhelm Dilthey

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

I teach metaphysics and pastor a church.
Della Reese

It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
Gabriel Marcel

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

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.
Joseph Joubert

Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.
Fernando Pessoa

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
Immanuel Kant

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
Robert M. Pirsig

Metaphysics is a science.
Gabriel Marcel

Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
F. H. Bradley

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
William James

Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.
Huston Smith