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.
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Philosophy is an attempt by man to find cause and effect. Religion has the same goal.
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 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.
You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
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.
The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.
Philosophy begins in wonder.
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.