Composition Quote by Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

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

— Aristotle

Metaphysics is a science.

— Gabriel Marcel

The role of metaphysics in relation to other disciplines, whether philosophical or not and including the natural sciences, is thus a foundational role. Lack…

— Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

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

— Josh Billings

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 is the clearing house for all fundamental philosophical problems.

— Joseph Alexander Leighton

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 is a cobweb that the mind weaves around things.

— Edward Abbey

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

— Franz Grillparzer

We call metaphysics the Science of Life, because to know pure metaphysics is to renew the life and make death and accident impossible.

— Emma Curtis Hopkins

“The accusation of metaphysics has become in philosophy something like the accusation of being a security risk in the public service. I do not…

— Bertrand Russell