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the philosophical study of being and knowing- Ontology is a central branch of metaphysics.
- I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy next to me.Woody Allen -- Annie Hall
- Eugene looked at the dull earnest faces, lured from the solid pews of Calvinism to the shadowland of metaphysics.Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
- "Of course I'm not trained in metaphysics, and there was lots I couldn't quite grasp, but I did feel it was inspiring.Sinclair Lewis -- Babbitt
- 'I told you, Winston,' he said, 'that metaphysics is not your strong point.George Orwell -- 1984
- Don't listen to his metaphysics, Barbara.George Bernard Shaw -- Major Barbara
- "A humbug, again!" cried the old gentleman, growing more and more testy at these glimpses of Clifford's metaphysics.Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The House of the Seven Gables
- This sounds a lot like metaphysics to me, but the men in the audience don't seem to take it amiss.Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
- People would not take his views on art, literature, history, biology, sociology and metaphysics as they took his checks.Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
- The principle of the vis inertiae, for example, seems to be identical in physics and metaphysics.Edgar Allan Poe -- The Purloined Letter
- This is metaphysics, Juan.George Bernard Shaw -- Man And Superman
- Isabel was fond of metaphysics, but was unable to accompany her friend into this bold analysis of the human personality.Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1
- But Lancelot's mind was not made for metaphysics.T. H. White -- The Once and Future King
- It was a question pertaining to Plato's metaphysics, which Plato hadn't had the sense to ask of himself.Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged
- I went to school, I went to a university, I studied philosophy, metaphysics, even a little medicine.Natalie Babbitt -- Tuck Everlasting
- In these metaphysics, and in these metaphysics alone, it hardly mattered if she came or not.Mark Helprin -- A Soldier of the Great War
- But we've talked enough metaphysics.Ivan Turgenev -- Fathers and Sons
- But this banishment to the rocks and echoes no metaphysics can make right or tolerable.Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Society and Solitude
- There were occasional gatherings of long-coated theatrical natives who discussed metaphysics in English and Bengali, to Mr Lurgan's great edification.Rudyard Kipling -- Kim
- He had long come to the conclusion that nothing amused him more than metaphysics, but he was not so sure of their efficacy in the affairs of life.W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
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