The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.
Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.
What is a philosophy? It Is an answer satisfactory to the reason to all the great problems of life. That is what is meant by philosophy. It must satisfy the reason, and it must show the unity underlying the endless diversity of the facts that science observes.
Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.
We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.
Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers.
We have to make philosophy itself an object of philosophical concern.
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.