Attention Quote by Charles Sanders Peirce

“Metaphysics, a completely isolated and speculative branch of rational knowledge which is raised above all teachings of experience and rests on concepts only (not,…

— Immanuel Kant

What is it that makes a person insist passionately on the existence of metaphysical realities that can be neither demonstrated nor refuted? (176)

— Stephen Batchelor

If our previous analyses are correct, they all point to the same conclusion, that metaphysical adventures are doomed to fail when their authors substitute…

— Etienne Gilson

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

“You are metaphysicians. You can prove anything by metaphysics; and having done so, every metaphysician can prove every other metaphysician wrong—to his own satisfaction.…

— Jack London

“The man who is ready to prove that metaphysical knowledge is wholly impossible has no right here to any answer. He must be referred…

— F.H. Bradley

“In fact, meta- and particle physicists have more in common than one might suppose: both tug, if in slightly different directions, at the knots…

— Tim Mackintosh-Smith

Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations.

— Edmund Burke

Men who believe too firmly in their theories, do not believe enough in the theories of others. So ... these despisers of their fellows…

— Claude Bernard

Meanwhile, the originator of a theory may have a very lonely time, especially if his colleagues find his views of nature unfamiliar, and difficult…

— Peter D. Mitchell

“There are systems upon systems that are incredible but possessed of a pleasing architecture or a certain agreeable sensationalism. The metaphysicians of Tlön seek…

— Jorge Luis Borges

“If we accept that Metaphysics studies the origin and structure of the world from beyond the natural or the physical to the supernatural knowledge…

— Tasha Heart