Metaphysics (n.) is the perfected cries of monkeys and dogs strung together in arbitrary order — onomatopoeic howls of hunger, fear and love from the primeval forest, mistaken for abstractions because loosely used.
Metaphysics (n.) is anthropomorphic in every statement that transgresses the bounds of reason — valid only as a psychically conditioned statement.
Metaphysics (n.) whose ideas can no longer evoke the original experience becomes not only useless but an actual impediment on the road to wider development.
Metaphysics (n.) can be spoken of only in antinomies: a statement about something metaphysical can only be antinomial.
Metaphysics (n.) is the inaccessible realm where nothing verifiable can be said; treating its statements as psychic facts confirms rather than devalues them, and sets aside the impossible question of whether they are true.
Metaphysics (n.) is a kind of physics or physiology of the archetypes, its dogmas recording insights into the unconscious leitmotifs of an epoch; the archetype is "metaphysical" because it transcends consciousness.