Metaphysic Quotes
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He knew what's what, and that's as high As metaphysic wit
can fly.
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As we divided natural philosophy in general into the inquiry of causes , and productions of effects: so that part which concerneth the inquiry of causes we do subdivide according to the received and sound division of causes. The one part, which is physic , inquireth and handleth the material and efficient causes; and the other, which is metaphysic , handleth the formal and final causes.
Francis Bacon— Francis Bacon, The Proficience and Advancement of Learning (1605)
The average man of the present age … does not want to be a sentimentalist in his endeavors; he wants some measure for purposeful activity; he wants to feel that through the world some increasing purpose runs. … But since his metaphysic calls only for magnitude and number, since it is becoming without a goal, it is not a source of distinctions in value. It is a system of quantitative comparison. Its effect therefore has been to collapse the traditional hierarchy and to produce economic man, whose destiny is mere activity.
richard weaver— p. 51 (Ideas have Consequences (1948))
He knew what 's what, and that 's as high As metaphysic wit can fly.
— Canto I, line 149.
