The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.
It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.
Quite early on, and certainly since I started writing, I found that philosophical questions occupied me more than any other kind. I hadn't really thought of them as being philosophical questions, but one rapidly comes to an understanding that philosophy's only really about two questions: 'What is true?' and 'What is good?'
Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions.
What sort of philosophy one chooses depends on what sort of person one is.
My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions.
All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.
Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.
We have to make philosophy itself an object of philosophical concern.
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
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