The object of studying philosophy is to know one's own mind, not other people's.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
The point of a philosophical spirit is to rely primarily upon one's own thinking.
Philosophy is for the few.
If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.
Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
It is not impossible to think that the minds of philosophers sometimes act like those of other mortals, and that, having once been determined by diverse circumstances to adopt certain views, they then look for and naturally find reasons to justify these views.
We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.
Philosophy is the product of wonder.
Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.