Metaphysics Quote by Mason Cooley

Metaphysics is the clearing house for all fundamental philosophical problems.

— Joseph Alexander Leighton

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

Metaphysics is a science.

— Gabriel Marcel

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

— Josh Billings

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

“Science advances one funeral at a time. Only when one generation passes away do new theories have a chance to root out old ones.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

Mathematics is the only good metaphysics.

— Lord Kelvin

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

— Franz Grillparzer

“My object is to persuade all those who think metaphysics worth studying that it is absolutely necessary to pause a moment and, disregarding all…

— Immanuel Kant

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

I think metaphysics is good if it improves everyday life; otherwise forget it.

— Robert M. Pirsig