Wayne Dyer Quotes

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

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

Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible.

I stick my finger into existence.. it smells of nothing. Where am I? Who am I? What is this thing called the world? What does this word mean?

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

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

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

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

I'm very passionate about philosophy and religion.

To think Being itself explicitly requires disregarding Being to the extent that it is only grounded and interpreted in terms of beings and for beings as their ground, as in all metaphysics.

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.

About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.

Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

Philosophy is for the few.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

Philosophy … consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

Philosophy! the lumber of the schools.

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

In the case of Anathem, most of the research had to do with philosophy and metaphysics. Reading this sort of thing has never been my strong suit, so I actually had to be somewhat more "organized and results-driven" than is my habit. I just made up my mind that I was going to have to read some of these philosophy tomes, and I forced myself to read something like 10 pages a day until I had bashed my way through them.

Aside from theology and sex there is really nothing to talk about.

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

Philosophy just puts everything before us, and neither explains nor deduces anything.-Since everything lies open to view there is nothing to explain

There is philosophy, which is about conceptual analysis - about the meaning of what we say - and there is all of this ... all of life.

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