Quotes about Metaphysics

As Julie Andrews once sang, "Nothing came from nothing. Nothing ever could.

Dostoevsky - is not a realist as an artist, he is an experimentator, a creator of an experimential metaphysics of human nature.

G. W. Leibniz, codiscoverer of calculus and a towering intellect of eighteenth-century Europe, wrote: "The first question which should rightly be asked is: Why is there something rather than nothing?"[1] In other words, why does anything at all exist? This, for Leibniz, is the most basic question that anyone can ask. Like me, Leibniz came to the conclusion that the answer is to be found, not in the universe of created things, but in God. God

The first question which should rightly be asked is: Why is there something rather than nothing?

Whatever begins to exist has a cause; the universe began to exist; therefore, the universe has a cause"). Second

In The Sound of Music, when Captain Von Trapp and Maria reveal their love for each other, what does Maria say? "Nothing comes from nothing; nothing ever could." We don't normally think of philosophical principles as romantic, but Maria was here expressing a fundamental principle of classical metaphysics.

There must be must be a first mover existing above all — and this we call God.

It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God.

God is not related to creatures as though belonging to a different "genus," but as transcending every "genus," and as the principle of all "genera.