Adventure Quote by Etienne Gilson

Metaphysics is the clearing house for all fundamental philosophical problems.

— Joseph Alexander Leighton

“Given that the `common sense' of many contemporary philosophers is shaped and supplemented by ideas from classical physics, the locus of most metaphysical discussions…

— James Ladyman

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

— Josh Billings

There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that only the…

— Milan Kundera

A metaphysical conclusion is either a false conclusion or a concealed experimental conclusion.

— Hermann von Helmholtz

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

Some think to avoid the influence of metaphysical errors, by paying no attention to metaphysics; but experience shows that these men beyond all others…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

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 a science.

— Gabriel Marcel

“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

“Given that the `common sense' of many contemporary philosophers is shaped and supplemented by ideas from classical physics, the locus of most metaphysical discussions…

— James Ladyman