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  • Its effect on me had indeed been so powerful that I had actually speculated—not idly either, but with a moment's seriousness, which rather scared me—on the physical and spiritual consequences to myself were I, too, to indulge in a little homicide tinged with metaphysics, plunge a knife, say, into the breast of some innocent old woman like Yetta Zimmerman.†   (source)
  • He listened to philosophic discussions, to metaphysics, to esthetics, to impersonal experience.†   (source)
  • (A whisper): Are you interested in metaphysics?†   (source)
  • Do you plan on spending another lifetime indulging in metaphysics-to find new justification for opposing your enemies?†   (source)
  • That's metaphysics, my dear fellow.†   (source)
  • But we know from Phaedrus' metaphysics that the harmony Poincaré talked about is not subjective.†   (source)
  • Kant's metaphysics thrilled Phaedrus at first, but later it dragged and he didn't know exactly why.†   (source)
  • Its indefinability freed it from the rules of metaphysics.†   (source)
  • I think metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life; otherwise forget it.†   (source)
  • This sounds a lot like metaphysics to me, but the men in the audience don't seem to take it amiss.†   (source)
  • CLUMLY: See here-- PRISONER: I've known men would give their souls for metaphysics.†   (source)
  • I know a man in Philadelphia killed by lightning in pursuit of metaphysics.†   (source)
  • Simple concepts, no metaphysics.†   (source)
  • To do that required still another backup into the huge area that relates both metaphysics and everyday life…namely, formal reason.†   (source)
  • Nor is it, if one follows Phaedrus' metaphysics, the result of any subjects of technology, theÊpeople who produce it or the people who use it.†   (source)
  • But to understand the meaning of Quality in classic terms required a backup into metaphysics and its relationship to everyday life.†   (source)
  • So I proceeded with formal reason up into metaphysics and then into Quality and then from Quality back down into metaphysics and science.†   (source)
  • He had become so caught up in his own world of Quality metaphysics he couldn't see outside it anymore, and since no one else understood this world, he was already done for.†   (source)
  • To leave the impression in the scientific world that the source of all scientific reality is merely a subjective, capricious harmony is to solve problems of epistemology while leaving an unfinished edge at the border of metaphysics that makes the epistemology unacceptable.†   (source)
  • It is only the metaphysics of a leech that would cling to the idea of a universe where a zero is a standard of identification.†   (source)
  • Not only had Rafi understood, which surprised Alessandro, for Rafi was not partial to metaphysics, but he had responded immediately, telling Alessandro that the real beauty of forward motion was that, to achieve it, something else had to move either around or up and down-like wheels on a train or a cart, or the pistons and propellers of a flying machine, or the screw of a ship, or, in the case of a man walking, his bones, his ligaments, and his heart.†   (source)
  • The relationship, therefore, is quite intangible, and interesting primarily on levels of speculative metaphysics.†   (source)
  • He said thoughtfully, "Metaphysics.†   (source)
  • Religion declines, and patriotism; law and justice become abstruse questions of metaphysics; the younger generation grows dangerous and irrational, shameless, selfish, anarchistic.†   (source)
  • Metaphysics.†   (source)
  • He could not recall off-hand what Metaphysics was--it was one of those things he'd probably understood once, long ago, had come across, say, in the days when he used to read whatever people offered him to pass the time with on the ship; or it was one of those words you heard and dismissed, knowing your limits, or knowing the thing was probably just air, an occupation for idle minds--like the words the Mayor's man Wittaker used at times, "interaction target," or something like that, and…†   (source)
  • Metaphysics.†   (source)
  • CLUMLY: Metaphysics!†   (source)
  • 'I told you, Winston,' he said, 'that metaphysics is not your strong point.†   (source)
  • But Lancelot's mind was not made for metaphysics.†   (source)
  • Part 1 Chapter 1 Subsection 1 — From Psychology to Metaphysics.†   (source)
  • What if all your ancient game of metaphysics never touched the dark jungle of my soul?†   (source)
  • People would not take his views on art, literature, history, biology, sociology and metaphysics as they took his checks.†   (source)
  • It was shortly before midnight in early March; I had been entertaining the college intellectuals to mulled claret; the fire was roaring, the air of my room heavy with smoke and spice, and my mind weary with metaphysics.†   (source)
  • This greatly celebrated legend affords an excellent example of the close relationship maintained in the Orient between myth, psychology, and metaphysics.†   (source)
  • Eugene looked at the dull earnest faces, lured from the solid pews of Calvinism to the shadowland of metaphysics.†   (source)
  • The late Herr Haller, gifted writer, student of Mozart and Goethe, author of essays upon the metaphysics of art, upon genius and tragedy and humanity, the melancholy hermit in a cell encumbered with books, was given over bit by bit to self-criticism and at every point was found wanting.†   (source)
  • Metaphysics yields to prehistory, which is dim and vague at first, but becomes gradually precise in detail.†   (source)
  • Whereas the truths of science are communicable, being demonstrable hypotheses rationally founded on observable facts, ritual, mythology, and metaphysics are but guides to the brink of a transcendent illumination, the final step to which must be taken by each in his own silent experience.†   (source)
  • The modern student may, of course, study these symbols as he will, either as a symptom of others' ignorance, or as a sign to him of his own, either in terms of a reduction of metaphysics to psychology, or vice versa.†   (source)
  • However, I don't propose to discuss politics, sociology, or metaphysics with you.†   (source)
  • Don't listen to his metaphysics, Barbara.†   (source)
  • This was a case of metaphysics, at least as difficult for Joe to deal with as for me.†   (source)
  • The principle of the vis inertiae, for example, seems to be identical in physics and metaphysics.†   (source)
  • But this banishment to the rocks and echoes no metaphysics can make right or tolerable.†   (source)
  • MEPHISTOPHELES And after—first and foremost duty—Of Metaphysics learn the use and beauty!†   (source)
  • "My mother is like old George the Third," said the Vicar, "she objects to metaphysics."†   (source)
  • I care not to tear my religion on his metaphysics.†   (source)
  • But Joe took the case altogether out of the region of metaphysics, and by that means vanquished it.†   (source)
  • He, being a humorist, explained to them the method of the celebrated Dickensian essay on Chinese Metaphysics by the gentleman who read an article on China and an article on Metaphysics and combined the information.†   (source)
  • Metaphysics is evil.†   (source)
  • "Of course I'm not trained in metaphysics, and there was lots I couldn't quite grasp, but I did feel it was inspiring.†   (source)
  • This is metaphysics, Juan.†   (source)
  • Perhaps Margaret grew too old for metaphysics, perhaps Henry was weaning her from them, but she felt that there was something a little unbalanced in the mind that so readily shreds the visible.†   (source)
  • 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.†   (source)
  • We can only be grateful to a man like Herr Settembrini for characterizing metaphysics as "evil" as he once did when speaking, with his usual pedagogic decisiveness, to the young man with whose fate we are concerned and whom on one occasion he very aptly called a "problem child of life " And we can best honor the memory of a young man, who though departed is still dear to us, by saying that the critical principle can and must have only one meaning, purpose, and goal: the idea of duty,…†   (source)
  • Jo knew nothing about philosophy or metaphysics of any sort, but a curious excitement, half pleasurable, half painful, came over her as she listened with a sense of being turned adrift into time and space, like a young balloon out on a holiday.†   (source)
  • "A humbug, again!" cried the old gentleman, growing more and more testy at these glimpses of Clifford's metaphysics.†   (source)
  • There were occasional gatherings of long-coated theatrical natives who discussed metaphysics in English and Bengali, to Mr Lurgan's great edification.†   (source)
  • In these departments the language will constantly spread, whilst on the other hand it will gradually lose ground in metaphysics and theology.†   (source)
  • Katavasov was very fond of discussing metaphysics, having derived his notions from natural science writers who had never studied metaphysics, and in Moscow Levin had had many arguments with him of late.†   (source)
  • Everything was then viewed without metaphysics, without exaggeration, without magnifying glass, with the naked eye.†   (source)
  • If there's a screw loose in a heavenly body, that's philosophy; and if there's screw loose in a earthly body, that's philosophy too; or it may be that sometimes there's a little metaphysics in it, but that's not often.†   (source)
  • In your metaphysics you have denied personality to the Deity; yet when the devout motions of the soul come, yield to them heart and life, though they should clothe God with shape and color.†   (source)
  • Isabel was fond of metaphysics, but was unable to accompany her friend into this bold analysis of the human personality.†   (source)
  • Now he would take up the position of a practical man and condemn dreamers; now that of a satirist, and laugh ironically at his opponents; now grow severely logical, or suddenly rise to the realm of metaphysics.†   (source)
  • Thus he shut himself up, he lived there, he was absolutely satisfied with it, leaving on one side the prodigious questions which attract and terrify, the fathomless perspectives of abstraction, the precipices of metaphysics—all those profundities which converge, for the apostle in God, for the atheist in nothingness; destiny, good and evil, the way of being against being, the conscience of man, the thoughtful somnambulism of the animal, the transformation in death, the recapitulation…†   (source)
  • I should find myself, therefore, more at my ease, FACILUS NATANS, in a subject of my own choice, which would be to these hard theological questions what morals are to metaphysics in philosophy.†   (source)
  • But we've talked enough metaphysics.†   (source)
  • Older than the Vedas of Para-Brahm or the Up-Angas of Vyasa, O Melchior; older than the songs of Homer or the metaphysics of Plato, O my Gaspar; older than the sacred books or kings of the people of China, or those of Siddartha, son of the beautiful Maya; older than the Genesis of Mosche the Hebrew—oldest of human records are the writings of Menes, our first king.†   (source)
  • But just as the subject of every science is the manifestation of this unknown essence of life while that essence itself can only be the subject of metaphysics, even the manifestation of the force of free will in human beings in space, in time, and in dependence on cause forms the subject of history, while free will itself is the subject of metaphysics.†   (source)
  • This power of expression, or of transferring the inmost truth of things into music and verse, makes him the type of the poet, and has added a new problem to metaphysics.†   (source)
  • The sweet young maiden to betray, So that by wish and will you bend her; And you look as though To the lecture-hall you were forced to go,— As if stood before you, gray and loath, Physics and Metaphysics both!†   (source)
  • If the boy had replied like Alcibiades, "By the gods, Socrates, I cannot tell," his grandfather would not have been surprised, but when, after standing a moment on one leg, like a meditative young stork, he answered, in a tone of calm conviction, "In my little belly," the old gentleman could only join in Grandma's laugh, and dismiss the class in metaphysics.†   (source)
  • All the argument and all the wisdom is not in the encyclopaedia, or the treatise on metaphysics, or the Body of Divinity, but in the sonnet or the play.†   (source)
  • "I' faith! brother what father of the church is it, who says that the errors of heretics have always had for their lurking place the thickets of Aristotle's metaphysics?†   (source)
  • Metaphysics in Mecklenburgh street!†   (source)
  • That I walk up my stoop, I pause to consider if it really be, A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.†   (source)
  • And now gentlemen, A word I give to remain in your memories and minds, As base and finale too for all metaphysics.†   (source)
  • The Base of All Metaphysics And now gentlemen, A word I give to remain in your memories and minds, As base and finale too for all metaphysics.†   (source)
  • …woman-friend, (Now buried in an English grave—and this a memory-leaf for her dear sake,) Ended our talk—"The sum, concluding all we know of old or modern learning, intuitions deep, "Of all Geologies—Histories—of all Astronomy—of Evolution, Metaphysics all, "Is, that we all are onward, onward, speeding slowly, surely bettering, "Life, life an endless march, an endless army, (no halt, but it is duly over,) "The world, the race, the soul—in space and time the universes, "All bound as is…†   (source)
  • Candide, Martin, and Pangloss sometimes disputed about morals and metaphysics.†   (source)
  • Balk logic with acquaintance that you have, And practise rhetoric in your common talk; Music and poesy use to quicken you; The mathematics and the metaphysics, Fall to them as you find your stomach serves you: No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en; In brief, sir, study what you most affect.†   (source)
  • At length Candide, having always had a taste for metaphysics, made Cacambo ask whether there was any religion in that country.†   (source)
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