The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.
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As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.
Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history.
The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.
Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
History should be written as philosophy.
Philosophy is best practised by people in general and not by philosophers alone. Philosophy is too often a luxury now, but in ancient Greece, carpenters, masons and beggars were the main practitioners. What I am trying to develop is a philosophical system where all the subjects can be taught.
Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.
Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.
To me, what philosophy does best is reflect on knowledge that's generated in other areas.
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