It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves.
To understand the theory which underlies all things is not sufficient. Theory is but the preparation for practice.
We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.
My philosophy has been to take things day by day. When I talk about this philosophy, it makes people perhaps a little surprised.
Where I am not understood, it shall be concluded that something very useful and profound is couched underneath.
It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.
We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.
One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.
Necessity dispenseth with decorum.