Empiricism Quote by Franz Grillparzer

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

— Josh Billings

Metaphysics is a science.

— Gabriel Marcel

Metaphysics is a cobweb that the mind weaves around things.

— Edward Abbey

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

— Aristotle

Metaphysics is universal and is exclusively concerned with primary substance. ... And here we will have the science to study that which is, both…

— Aristotle

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

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Metaphysics is the clearing house for all fundamental philosophical problems.

— Joseph Alexander Leighton

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

— T.Z. Lavine

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 is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible.

— H. L. Mencken

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