C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.

Metaphysics

All parts of knowledge have their origin in metaphysics.

De Quincey.

Metaphysics,—the science which determines what can and what cannot be known of being and the laws of being.

Coleridge.

He knew what’s what, and that’s as high
As metaphysic wit can fly.

Butler.

Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken, is a science, or complement of sciences, exclusively occupied with mind.

Sir W. Hamilton.

The fame of Locke is visibly on the decline; the speculations of Malebranche are scarcely heard of in France; and Kant, the greatest metaphysical name on the Continent, sways a doubtful sceptre amidst a host of opponents.

Robert Hall.

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