Learning Quote by Stephen Mumford

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

“In periods when shallow speculation is rife, one might think that metaphysics would shine forth, at least, by the brilliance of its modest reserve.…

— Jacques Maritain

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

— Josh Billings

Metaphysics is the clearing house for all fundamental philosophical problems.

— Joseph Alexander Leighton

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

— Franz Grillparzer

“it’s a metaphysical choice that science makes when it states that with the help of our concepts we can discover the ultimate nature of…

— Anonymous

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 is a cobweb that the mind weaves around things.

— Edward Abbey

“Given that the 'common sense' of many contemporary philosophers is shaped and supplemented by ideas from classical physics, the locus of most metaphysical discussions…

— James Ladyman

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

— Aristotle

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