The science of mathematics performs more than it promises, but the science of metaphysics promises more than it performs.
Metaphysics is a science.
All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics, and finally, perhaps, revolve into it.
The mystery of sound is mysticism; the harmony of life is religion. The knowledge of vibrations is metaphysics, the analysis of atoms is science, and their harmonious grouping is art. The rhythm of form is poetry, and the rhythm of sound is music. This shows that music is the art of arts and the science of allsciences; and it contains the fountain of all knowledge within itself.
The business and design of the Royal Society is: To improve the knowledge of naturall things, and all useful Arts, Manufactures, Mechanic practices, Engines and Inventions by Experiments-(not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysics, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetoric or Logick).
One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.
Metaphysics,--the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.
According to metaphysics, fear is caused by the lack of light.
To create a good philosophy you should renounce metaphysics but be a good mathematician.
I study myself more than any other subject. That is my metaphysics, that is my physics.
I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people.
Laughter is the real religion. Everything else is just metaphysics.
Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.
Metaphysics is the science of proving what we don't understand.
The knife of historical relativism. . . which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.
No science can be more secure than the unconscious metaphysics which tacitly it presupposes.
Metaphysics is a restaurant where they give you a thirty thousand page menu, and no food.
The difference between physics and metaphysics is not that the practitioners of one are smarter than the practitioners of the other. The difference is that the metaphysicist has no laboratory.
The way towards 'wisdom' or towards 'freedom' is the way towards your inner being. This is the simplest definition of metaphysics.
I'm a humanist. I'm an observer. I have a very scientific mind. I believe metaphysics and science absolutely blended are more the truth for me. It doesn't work just believing in what somebody says.