| 1. | Which fate and metaphysical aid doth see. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 2. | Should you ever be athirst in the great American desert, try this experiment, if your caravan happen to be supplied with a metaphysical professor. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |
| 3. | This monomania, if I must so term it, consisted in a morbid irritability of those properties of the mind in metaphysical science termed the _attentive_. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 4. | Levin felt that it would be improper to enter upon a metaphysical discussion with the priest, and so he said in reply merely what was a direct answer to the question. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 5. | Ah that is clearly a metaphysical speculation, and like most metaphysical speculations has very little reference at all to the actual facts of real life, as we know them. - from The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde |
| 6. | Nor is there anything unnatural in the hasty application of these vast metaphysical conceptions to practical and political life. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 7. | The discovery of a great metaphysical conception seems to ravish the mind with a prophetic consciousness which takes away the power of estimating its value. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 8. | He was the greatest metaphysical genius whom the world has seen and in him, more than in any other ancient thinker, the germs of future knowledge are contained. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 9. | For metaphysical and moral philosophy has no connexion with mathematics number and figure are the abstractions of time and space, not the expressions of purely intellectual conceptions. - from The Republic by Plato |