Philosophy has to be enquiring; it can take nothing on faith, and its methods are based not on the blind acceptance of authority, but on establishing truths by reason and argument.
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Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.
Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy.
Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.
Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers.
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.
You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system.
To believe only possibilities is not faith, but mere philosophy.
Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply a refusal to deny the obvious. Unfortunately, we live in a world in which the obvious is overlooked as a matter of principle.
Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history.
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