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“The purpose of this critique of pure speculative reason consists in the attempt to change the old procedure of metaphysics, and to bring about…

— Immanuel Kant

“Metaphysics doesn't go against reason. It goes beyond it.”

— Klaudio Marashi

The distinctive contribution that metaphysics makes to our understanding of reality is first that it considers questions about features of reality that the sciences…

— L.A. Paul

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

— Josh Billings

There are two excesses: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason. The supreme achievement of reason is to realise that there is a…

— Blaise Pascal

What I believe is a process rather than a finality.

— Emma Goldman

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

— Franz Grillparzer

We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.

— Thomas Paine

The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience

— Immanuel Kant

When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths…

— Gottfried Leibniz

There is curiously little art concerning the efficacy of reason - perhaps simply because reason is not noticeably efficacious.

— Nicholas Mosley

Every genuine test of a theory is an attempt to falsify it, or to refute it.

— Karl Popper