A-priori Quote by C.G. Jung

“Human understanding is limited—and the things that metaphysics seeks to know, we can never know.”

— T.Z. Lavine

Metaphysics involves intuitive knowledge of unprovable starting-points concepts and truth and demonstrative knowledge of what follows from them.

— Aristotle

“Logic may be conceived as ruling out what is absolutely impossible, and thus determining the field of what in the absence of empirical knowledge…

— Morris F. Cohen

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

— Thomas de Quincey

“When we are young we believe that we know everything, and so we believe that if we see no explanation for something, then no…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

“What I believe is we’re able to push the boundaries of our knowledge only so long as we keep our focus on phenomena itself,…

— Sean Chercover

“This experiment succeeds as hoped and promises to metaphysics, in its first part, which deals with those *a priori* concepts to which the corresponding…

— Immanuel Kant

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

— Klaudio Marashi

“My object is to persuade all those who think metaphysics worth studying that it is absolutely necessary to pause a moment and, disregarding all…

— Immanuel Kant

Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so and logic only the art of going…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

“metaphysics by showing that these theories are not just false, but unintelligible.”

— David Hume

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

— Josh Billings