We can make truth ours by actively modulating its inter-relations. This is the work of art; for reality is not based in the substance of things but in the principle of relationship. Truth is the infinite pursued by metaphysics; fact is the infinite p
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Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
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I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
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If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, 'Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number?' No. 'Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence?' No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.
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Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.
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Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.
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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.
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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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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
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Four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what the soul is.
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A morning glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
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We don't know any more about pictures than a kangaroo does about metaphysics.... To us, the great uncultivated, it is the last thing in the wo...
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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.
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Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.
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When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when the man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.
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I was thrown out of N.Y.U. my freshman year for cheating on my metaphysics final. You know, I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
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I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy next to me.
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I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam. I looked into the soul of the boy next to me.
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When I was in school, I cheated on my metaphysics exam I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.
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When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.
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I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
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When he to whom a person speaks does not understand, and he who speaks does not understand himself, that is metaphysics.
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