Cobwebs Quote by Edward Abbey

Metaphysics is a science.

— Gabriel Marcel

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

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

— Josh Billings

Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind.

— Thomas Carlyle

Metaphysics is the clearing house for all fundamental philosophical problems.

— Joseph Alexander Leighton

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

— Franz Grillparzer

Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken, is a science, or complement of sciences, exclusively occupied with mind.

— Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

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 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

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

— Aristotle

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,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge