metaphysician

• “Furthermore, anyone who ever ponders the very meaning of life could be called a metaphysician, at least in their moment of pondering.”

  Simon & Schuster: Manifesting Change

• “Schoolmen to go outside the lines of strict ecclesiastical tradition and learn, not only from Aristotle, who was now beginning to be known as a metaphysician and a psychologist, but also from the Arabians and the Jews, whose works had begun to penetrate in Latin translations into the schools of Christian Europe.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock

• “The ideal of the metaphysician is the ideal of the animal.”

  Nature Cure

• “The audience hazard the same word "metaphysician" as the answer, but are informed that they are wrong -- the word now represented having only three syllables, and they ultimately discover that the word is "metaphor" (met afore).”

  Entertainments for Home, Church and School

• “A metaphysician is a sort of philosopher, partly visionary and partly sceptical, who sees what is concealed from all others.”

  Niels Klim's journey under the ground being a narrative of his wonderful descent to the subterranean lands; together with an account of the sensible animals and trees inhabiting the planet Nazar and the firmament.

• “Ada Lovelace Day celebrates the life and achievements of women in science and technology through blogging in the name of Ada Byron – Countess of Lovelace, daughter of the romantic poet Lord Byron, analyst, metaphysician, the founder of scientific computing, and The Enchantress of Numbers.”

  Special Post: Noether’s First Theorem – Emmy Noether for Ada Lovelace Day

• “Whereat he would laugh, and his arms would leap out to me, and he would call me his sweet metaphysician; and the tiredness would pass out of his eyes, and into them would flood the happy love-light that was in itself a new and sufficient advertisement of his immortality.”

  Chapter 11: The Great Adventure

• “God; and when he called me his sweet metaphysician, I called him my immortal materialist.”

  Chapter 11: The Great Adventure

• “The Buddha generally presented himself as more physician than metaphysician.”

  Simon & Schuster: Red Flags or Red Herrings?

• “Though Hazlitt continued to think of himself as a “metaphysician” (less often as a painter; he had by now given up his professional ambitions along those lines), he began to feel comfortable in the role of journalist.”

  March « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground

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