Metaphysicians Quotes

I would say of metaphysicians what Scaliger said of the Basques: they are said to understand each other, but I do not believe it. - Chamfort

A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians. - William James