Metaphysics Quote by Allen W. Wood

Kant's treatments of rational theology and metaphysics were aimed primarily at theoretical questions. His attitude toward the pseudo-sciences of "special metaphysics" in Wolff and…

— Allen W. Wood

Metaphysics is a science.

— Gabriel Marcel

Metaphysics is the study of the most general nature and basic structure of reality, and therefore the concepts of metaphysics, concepts like time, space,…

— Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

Metaphysics must be based on what exists, for it has the task of explicating it.

— Franz Grillparzer

Metaphysics is the clearing house for all fundamental philosophical problems.

— Joseph Alexander Leighton

The usual derivation of the word Metaphysics is not to be sustainedthe science is supposed to take its name from its superiority to physics.…

— Edgar Allan Poe

To gauge the understanding and insight that metaphysics provides is to ask whether, in the final analysis, it helps us to cope with our…

— Rudolph Rummel

Metaphysics is the science of proving what we don't understand.

— Josh Billings

I think metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life; otherwise forget it.

— Robert M. Pirsig

Metaphysics is a cobweb that the mind weaves around things.

— Edward Abbey

“in the same sense in which Kant held that the empirical sciences depend on some mental abilities – intuition and categories”

— Ulrich Müller

Metaphysics is the study of how to shift the self. How to get outside the self-reflection and to just gaze with awe and wonder…

— Frederick Lenz