Quotes about Metaphysics

It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking.

To deny the necessity or value of metaphysics is to assert a metaphysical principle, just as to say a religion must be without dogmas is to assert a dogma.

Abstraction is the condition of the science of metaphysics, but in no way is its content.

Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.

God is that, the greater than which cannot be conceived.

If there ever was a time that nothing existed, then nothing would exist now

If there ever was a time when absolutely nothing existed, all there could possibly be now is nothing.

The devotee of myth is in a way a philosopher, for myth is made up of things that cause wonder.

those who inquire into the number of existents: for they inquire whether the ultimate constituents of existing things are one or many, and if many, whether a finite or an infinite plurality.

If, then, 'substance' is not attributed to anything, but other things are attributed to it, how does 'substance' mean what is rather than what is not?

It is, then, clearly impossible for Being to be one in this sense.

This book is merely a personal narrative, and not a pretentious history or a philosophical dissertation. It is a record of several years of variegated vagabondizing, and it's object is rather to help the resting reader while away an idle hour than afflict him with metaphysics, or goad him with science.