Concealed Quote by Hermann von Helmholtz

If you come to the conclusion that there is no conclusion, well, that's a conclusion, too.

— Jens Lekman

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

Conclusion means death. Confusion means possibility.

— Jaggi Vasudev

Metaphysics is a science.

— Gabriel Marcel

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

— Josh Billings

The truth is, that common-sense, or thought as it first emerges above the level of the narrowly practical, is deeply imbued with that bad…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

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

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

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

— William James

If a conclusion is not poetically balanced, it cannot be scientifically true.

— Isaac Asimov

Our reliance on the validity of a scientific conclusion depends ultimately on a judgment of coherence; and as there can exist no strict criterion…

— Michael Polanyi

“I call you metaphysicians because you reason metaphysically," Ernest went on. "Your method of reasoning is the opposite to that of science. There is…

— Jack London