Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body.
Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.
I am an example of a person who got zeroed into a philosophy early.
To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.
Philosophy is for the few.
Everyone should have a philosophy for living better.
Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.
From the very early days of seeing patients, I noticed that many of them seemed to be concerned with issues of their mortality, and so the philosophy training I had taken began to seem rather important to me.
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.
I've become pretty philosophical about a lot of things, including death. It doesn't get to me.