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The form of act or thought mattered nothing. The hymns of David, the plays of Shakespeare, the metaphysics of Descartes, the crime ...
You seem to think that I am adapted to nothing but the sugar-plums of intellect and had better not try to digest anything stronger ...
I was thrown out of N.Y.U. my freshman year ... for cheating on my metaphysics final. You know, I looked within the soul of the bo ...
The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, slowly embalming itself beneath the wrappings of its borders, ...
Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing. It embodies, indeed, something better than ...
Poetry is essentially the antithesis of Metaphysics: Metaphysics purge the mind of the senses and cultivate the disembodiment of t ...
To anyone who still feels that there must be an identity of logical form between language and reality, I can only plead that the c ...
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
And Coleridge, too, has lately taken wing,
But like a hawk encumber'd with his hood,--
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Metaphysics keeps surviving its obituaries.
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