Quotes on Metaphysics

God tries his votaries through and through but never beyond endurance. He gives them strength enough to go through the ordeal he prescribes for them.

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality. Man, for instance, cannot be untruthful, cruel or incontinent and claim to have God on his side.

Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.

Mathematics is the only true metaphysics.

Science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics; or, the state of science is an index of our self-knowledge.

Since science's competence extends to observable and measurable phenomena, not to the inner being of things, and to the means, not to the ends of human life, it would be nonsense to expect that the progress of science will provide men with a new type of metaphysics, ethics, or religion.

It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.

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.

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.

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.

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

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.

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

He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.