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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.
John Adams
Liberty
Thought
Power
Implies
Metaphysics
Intellectual
According
Agent
Choice
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
Mathematics
Physics
First
Lastly
Must
Logic
Proper
Various
Attain
He
Perfection
Study
Wishes
Metaphysics
Branches
Human
Order
Then
Next
Who
Therefore
Consequently
Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.
Fernando Pessoa
Valentines Day
Earth
Like
Look
Metaphysics
Chocolates
Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.
John Ray
Algebra
Arithmetic
Metaphysics
Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.
Swami Sivananda
Religion
Science
Argument
Only
Both
Beyond
Inwardly
Real
Metaphysics
Go
Region
Lived
Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
William James
Nothing
Think
Clearly
Obstinate
Unusually
Metaphysics
Effort
Means
The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go into science, the mushier the ground gets. You start to say, 'Oh, there is an order and a spiritual aspect to science.'
Dan Brown
Spiritual
You
Science
Physics
Become
Saw
Say
More
Studied
Becomes
Metaphysics
Go
Gets
Oh
Order
Aspect
Ground
Farther
Start
Imaginary
Numbers
So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world.
John Polkinghorne
Physics
World
Well
Understand
Metaphysics
Fit
Very
Process
It's not that prison makes you shed your abstract notions. On the contrary, it pares them down to their most succinct articulations. Prison is, indeed, a translation of your metaphysics, ethics, sense of history and whatnot into the compact terms of your daily deportment.
Joseph Brodsky
Daily
History
You
Ethics
Prison
Sense
Translation
Down
On The Contrary
Indeed
Abstract
Most
Terms
Shed
Makes
Metaphysics
Contrary
Whatnot
Them
Your
Notions
Compact
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
Time
History
Old
Long
Long Time
Society
Relation
Well
Sciences
Metaphysics
However
Subservient
Eighteenth
Eighteenth Century
Century
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
Success
Beautiful
Religion
Philosophy
System
Spirit
Morality
Only
Could
Never
Buddhism
Masses
Sorrowful
Catholic
Metaphysics
Owed
Succeeded
Mankind
Presented
If you're trained in metaphysics, you don't see the world as distinct from yourself. You are one with the world.
Marianne Williamson
You
Yourself
World
Distinct
See
Metaphysics
Trained