#metaphysic

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

— John Adams

#agent #choice #implies #intellectual #liberty

For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

#contrary #departure #doctrine #journey #metaphysical

Each department of knowledge passes through three stages. The theoretic stage; the theological stage and the metaphysical or abstract stage. ↗

— Auguste Comte

#department #each #knowledge #metaphysical #passes

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me. ↗

— John Fowles

#i #me #metaphysical #move #mysterious

Love is metaphysical gravity. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#gravity #love is #metaphysical

I only want to give a metaphysic for my music. ↗

— Gyorgy Ligeti

#i #metaphysic #music #only #want

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

— Maimonides

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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

#branches #consequently #first #human #lastly

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#art #conquest #imitation #merely #metaphysical

That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#doctor #fellow #forbidden #me #metaphysics