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Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

“But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.”

Should Has Beens Religion Should Have Faith In God Metaphysics Godly Should Have Been Maniacs Ranting And Raving

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.”

Doe Reason Religion Faith Religious Morality Conflict Motherhood Doctrine Appeals Rejects Metaphysics

Book:All Men Are Brothers

Source: All Men Are Brothers

“Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.”

Men Religion Faith Peace Violence Faith In God Metaphysics Gentleness Non Violence Double Standard Non Violent

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.”

Motivational Motivation Religion Work Quality Please Quantity Longevity Metaphysics Workmanship Quality Work Quantity And Quality Quality Not Quantity

Book:Young India

Source: Young India

“Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.”

Life Is Religion Sound Education Conditions Building Purity Metaphysics Indispensable Personal Life Corny Building Up

Book:True Education

Source: True Education

“Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.”

Want Religion Fear Religious Metaphysics Fear Of Death Religious Faith Valour

Book:Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace

Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace

“Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.”

Reason Age Religion Faith Tests Universal Birthday Formulas Submit Metaphysics Testing Corny Acid Age Of Reason

Book:Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi

“Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.”

Inspirational Heart Matter Religion Redemption Metaphysics Abandonment Inconvenience Warrants Physical Attraction Matters Of The Heart

Book:Freedom's Battle: Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings and Speeches on the Present Situation

Source: Freedom's Battle: Being a Comprehensive Collection of Writings and Speeches on the Present Situation

“Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.”

Men Inspirational Trying Law Religion Order Belief Position Development Constant Consistent Racist Dogma Metaphysics Laws Of Life

Book:All Men Are Brothers

Source: All Men Are Brothers

“A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.”

Mind Religion Passion Religious Taken Fit Witness Metaphysics Vow

Book:Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace

Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace

“Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.”

Ifs Men Remember Religion Lows Philosophical Every Man Scales Comparison Metaphysics Truest

Book:Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

“There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.”

Law Religion Universe Blind Metaphysics Governing Orderliness

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.”

People Men Age Religion Simple Clothes Tradition Creeds Metaphysics Things Change Simple Things

Book:The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts

Source: The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts

“Knapsack of the Metaphysicians.- Those who boast so mightily of the scientificality of their metaphysics should receive no answer; it is enough to pluck at the bundle which, with a certain degree of embarrassment, they keep concealed behind their back; if one succeeds in opening it, the products of that scientificality come to light, attended by their blushes: a dear little Lord God, a nice little immortality, perhaps a certain quantity of spiritualism, and in any event a whole tangled heap of 'wretched poor sinner' and Pharisee arrogance.”

“Perhaps dandruff is the excreta of the mind the quantity of this material being directly proportional to the amount of reading one indulges in. A book on German metaphysics would thus easily ruin a dress suit.”

Mind Book Reading Materials Amount Dresses Suits Ruins Quantity Metaphysics Indulge Indulge In

Author:Thomas A. Edison

“Madame de Stael thought it was pride in mankind to endeavour to penetrate the secret of the universe; and speaking of the higher metaphysics she said: "I prefer the Lord's Prayer to it all."”

Said Universe Prayer Secret Lord Mankind Pride Higher Metaphysics Penetrate Endeavour

Author:Madame de Stael

“In the metaphysical elements of aesthetics the various nonmoral feelings are to be made use of; in the elements of moral metaphysics the various moral feelings of men, according to the differences in sex, age, education, and government, of races and climates, are to be employed.”

Men Made Use Feelings Government Age Sex Differences Race Moral Elements Climate Various Metaphysics Metaphysical Employed Aesthetics

Book:The Educational Theory of Immanuel Kant

Source: The Educational Theory of Immanuel Kant

“While the easiest way in metaphysics is to condemn all metaphysics as nonsense, the easiest way in morals is to elevate the common practice of the community into a moral absolute.”

Way Community Common Moral Practice Absolutes Nonsense Metaphysics

Book:The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson

Source: The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson

“It has never been in my power to study anything, mathematics, ethics, metaphysics, gravitation, thermodynamics, optics, chemistry, comparative anatomy, astronomy, psychology, phonetics, economics, the history of science, whist, men and women, wine, metrology, except as a study of semeiotic .”

Men Study Psychology Ethics Men And Women Economics Mathematics Wine Astronomy Chemistry Metaphysics Anatomy History Of Science Thermodynamics Gravitation Optics Phonetics

Book:Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance)

Source: Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance)

“The metaphysical apologia at least betrayed the injustice of the established order through the incongruence of concept and reality. The impartiality of scientific language deprived what was powerless of the strength to make itself heard and merely provided the existing order with a neutral sign for itself. Such neutrality is more metaphysical than metaphysics.”

Reality Order Language Heard Concepts Injustice Metaphysics Metaphysical Powerless Betrayed Deprived Neutrality Impartiality

Book:Dialectic of Enlightenment

Source: Dialectic of Enlightenment

“The metaphysics of substance. The strange feeling which comes over us when we sense: this is skin - this is bone - all in a single vision that is completely unearthly. The dreaminess of our existence mixed at the same time with the indescribably sweet illusion of reality.”

Feelings Reality Existence Vision Strange Sweet Illusion Skins Bones Substance Metaphysics

Book:Max Beckmann

Source: Max Beckmann

“The states of consciousness are all that psychology needs to do her work with. Metaphysics or theology may prove the Soul to exist; but for psychology the hypothesis of such a substantial principle of unity is superfluous.”

Needs May Soul States Consciousness Principles Psychology Prove Unity Theology Metaphysics Hypothesis Superfluous States Of Consciousness

Book:Psychology, Briefer Course

Source: Psychology, Briefer Course

“Science offers the boldest metaphysics of the age. It is a thoroughly human construct, driven by the faith that if we dream, press to discover, explain, and dream again, thereby plunging repeatedly into new terrain, the world will somehow come clearer and we will grasp the true strangeness of the universe. And the strangeness will all prove to be connected, and make sense.”

Ifs World Humans Dream Age Faith Universe Offers Prove Presses Connected Driven Make Sense Metaphysics Constructs Strangeness Terrain

Author:E. O. Wilson

“Now these two questions Does there exist a material reality distinct from sensible appearances? and What is the nature of reality? do not have their source in experimental method, which is acquainted only with sensible appearances and can discover nothing beyond them. The resolution of these questions transcends the methods used by physics; it is the object of metaphysics. Therefore, if the aim of physical theories is to explain experimental laws, theoretical physics is not an autonomous science; it is subordinate to metaphysics.”

Ifs Doe Two Reality Law Used Objects Materials Theory Source Aim Method Appearance Physics Resolution Sensible Metaphysics Theoretical Subordinates Autonomous Theoretical Physics

Author:Pierre Duhem

“The more serious poetry of the race has a philosophical structure of thought. It contains beliefs and conceptions in regard to the nature of man and the universe, God and the soul, fate and providence, suffering, evil and destiny. Great poetry always has, like the higher religion, a metaphysical content. It deals with the same august issues, experiences and conceptions as metaphysics or first philosophy.”

Source: The Field of Philosophy: An Outline of Lectures on Introduction to Philosophy

“Metaphysics is the clearing house for all fundamental philosophical problems.”

Problem House Philosophical Fundamentals Metaphysics Clearing

Book:Man and the Cosmos - An introduction to Metaphysics.

Source: Man and the Cosmos - An introduction to Metaphysics.

“A system of philosophy, or metaphysics, is a union of a world view and a life view in one harmonious, complete, integral conception. In so far as any man strives to attain, by rational inquiry, a consistent and comprehensive view of life and reality, he is a metaphysician.”

Men World Philosophy Reality Views Unions Strive Rational Consistent Conception Metaphysics Strife Inquiry Comprehensive Harmonious World View

Book:Man and the Cosmos - An introduction to Metaphysics.

Source: Man and the Cosmos - An introduction to Metaphysics.

“To bracket form and finality out of one's investigations as far as reason allows is a matter of method, but to deny their reality altogether is a matter of metaphysics.”

Matter Reason Reality Form Method Deny Investigation Metaphysics Finality Brackets

Author:David Bentley

“Bergman was the first to bring metaphysics - religion, death, existentialism - to the screen. ... But the best of Bergman is the way he speaks of women, of the relationship between men and women. He's like a miner digging in search of purity.”

Men Way Firsts Speak Men And Women Screens Purity Existentialism Metaphysics Digging Miners Bergman

Author:Bertrand Tavernier

“Tantra is spiritual, not religious. It deals with the spirit. Religion is just an applied body of doctrines that's believed or not believed by one or more individuals. Spirituality is the science of metaphysics.”

Philosophy Body Spiritual Spirit Spirituality Individual Religious Deals Doctrine Metaphysics Tantra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Metaphysics is the study of how to shift the self. How to get outside the self-reflection and to just gaze with awe and wonder at the countless universes, the countless celestial radiances of mind, of life, of enlightenment, nirvana, or God, whatever you want to call it.”

Want Mind Self Science Universe Wonder Study Buddhism Enlightenment Reflection Awe Metaphysics Self Reflection Celestial Radiance Awe And Wonder

Author:Frederick Lenz

“poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you will, of journalism and metaphysics, or of science and religion.”

Ifs Humans Has Beens Able Universe Function Journalism Interpretation Metaphysics Science And Religion Mixtures

Book:Living by Fiction

Source: Living by Fiction

“Not all the subtilties of metaphysics can make me doubt a moment of the immortality of the soul, and of a beneficent Providence. I feel it, I believe it, I desire it, I hope it, and will defend it to my last breath.”

Feels Believe Soul Moments Lasts Desire I Believe Doubt Breaths Immortality Providence Metaphysics

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Logic has its use and metaphysics has its use, but neither of them is of much help in the making of a creed.”

Helping Use Logic Doctrine Creeds Metaphysics

Author:Thomas De Witt Talmage

“Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.”

Use Together Tools Logic Metaphysics

Book:Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind.”

Mind Metaphysics Rise Above

Book:Carlyle Reader

Source: Carlyle Reader

“Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.”

Law Known Determine Metaphysics Being Me

Book:Aids to reflection, in the formation of a manly character ... illustrated by select passages ... especially from Archbishop Leighton ... First American, from the first London edition ... Together with a preliminary essay, and additional notes, by James Marsh

Source: Aids to reflection, in the formation of a manly character ... illustrated by select passages ... especially from Archbishop Leighton ... First American, from the first London edition ... Together with a preliminary essay, and additional notes, by James Marsh

“The God of metaphysics is but an idea. But the God of religion, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sovereign Judge of actions and thoughts, is a power.”

Ideas God Action Earth Heaven Judging Makers Metaphysics Sovereign Heaven And Earth

Book:Some of the

Source: Some of the

“Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken, is a science, or complement of sciences, exclusively occupied with mind.”

Mind Term Taken Metaphysics Complement Latitude

Author:Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

“Unfortunately, half the boats were lost in a great storm at sea, and many members of the six boats that did make it to their destinations safely, were later killed by the very native people to whom they sought to transmit their knowledge of the Atlantean sciences, arts and metaphysics.”