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

The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.

Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.

The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.

But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.

On a grassroots level we say that man can touch more than he can grasp.

The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

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

Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics.

But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.

Metaphysics is a science.

This detachmentmust not be mere amputation everything which is shaken off must be simultaneously found again at a higher level.

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

The verbal interpretation, on the other hand, i.e. the metaphysics of quantum physics, is on far less solid ground. In fact, in more than forty years physicists have not been able to provide a clear metaphysical model.

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.

He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.

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

That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it.

I teach metaphysics and pastor a church.

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

I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.

Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

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

However, the sciences of society and of history retained their old subservient relation to metaphysics for a long time - well into the eighteenth century.

Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world.

Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.

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.

The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.

Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.

Metaphysics is a science.

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.

Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological movements of their day.

A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.

Nor should we exclude the possibility that Islamic terrorism may begin to make common cause with Western political extremists of the far Left and far Right.

Young people discovering their sexuality must know they walk with a strong tradition and that they are not alone. They have a right to information without being pressured.

I want to have babies one day but not right now. When I do it I want to do it really well. I want it to be my best project in life.

We need to keep investing in economic and homeland security. We need to bank on the right kind of economic development. We need to embrace opportunities, but with the right kind of safeguards.

Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.

It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?

There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

I want to thank all the fans for their support over the years. Keep supporting the Knicks, we're moving in the right direction here and we will be exciting to watch and competing against the best in the NBA. Come back to the Garden for those exciting games.