Analysis Quote by Rudolph Rummel

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

— Josh Billings

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

— Franz Grillparzer

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

— Aristotle

Metaphysics is a cobweb that the mind weaves around things.

— Edward Abbey

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

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

— Aristotle

Metaphysics is a science.

— Gabriel Marcel

Metaphysics is the clearing house for all fundamental philosophical problems.

— Joseph Alexander Leighton

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

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

— Robert M. Pirsig