William Hamilton Quotes

Metaphysics is a science.

Metaphysics is the science of proving what we don't understand.

Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.

What I am trying to do is to unmuddle the metaphysical.

All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it.

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.

Einstein said, if everything exists as a substance of qualities, and qualities exist only in mind, then all is mind.

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

Philosophy! the lumber of the schools.

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

Logic doesn't apply to the real world. D. R. Hofstadter and D. C. Dennett (eds.) The Mind's I, 1981.

...physics is the study of the structure of consciousness.

In Philosophy, the contemplations of man do either penetrate unto God, or are circumferred to Nature, or are reflected and reverted upon himself. Out of which several inquiries there do arise three knowledges, Divine Philosophy, Natural Philosophy, and Human Philosophy or Humanity. For all things are marked and stamped with this triple character of the power of God, the difference of Nature and the use of Man.

Metaphysical problems about "mind" versus "matter" arise only from epistemological confusions.

If we are to know ourselves, philosophy needs to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the sciences of mind.

Philosophy is the thoughts of men about human thinking, reasoning and imagining, and the real values in human existence.

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

I'm very passionate about philosophy and religion.

Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem out there for science to come to grips with.

I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.

It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.

Philosophy wasn't about facts, it was about ideas. My first essay title was something like: 'How can you know what other people are thinking?' I thought, 'Wow, what an amazing thing.' I really thought deeply for the first time.