Concepts Quote by Aristotle

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

— Josh Billings

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

— Franz Grillparzer

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

All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it.

— Thomas de Quincey

Metaphysics is a cobweb that the mind weaves around things.

— Edward Abbey

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

Knowledge has the form of a tree, and since metaphysics is the most fundamental one of the theoretical disciplines, it represents the roots of…

— Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

Metaphysics is a science.

— Gabriel Marcel

“If it be true that there can be no metaphysics transcending human reason, it is no less true that there can be no empirical…

— C.G. Jung

“Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. The fundamental conceptions of psychology are practically very clear to us, but theoretically…

— William James

The more I learn of physics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics.

— Albert Einstein