Learning Quote by T.Z. Lavine

“If it be true that there can be no metaphysics transcending human reason, it is no less true that there can be no empirical…

— C.G. Jung

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

— Josh Billings

“We know things with our lives and we live that knowledge, beyond what any theory has yet theorized.”

— Catharine MacKinnon

“There are no metaphysics.”

— Jonathan Lethem

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

— Voltaire

When one man speaks to another man who doesn't understand him, and when a man who's speaking no longer understands, it's metaphysics.

— Voltaire

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

— Aristotle

“A great physicist is always a metaphysicist as well; he has a higher concept of his knowledge and his task.”

— Ernst Jünger

“metaphysics by showing that these theories are not just false, but unintelligible.”

— David Hume

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

— Franz Grillparzer

Metaphysics is a cobweb that the mind weaves around things.

— Edward Abbey

“All that we saw was owing to your metaphysics.”

— William Blake