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Philosophy does not have to be only an intellectual exercise but can be used to understand everyday living.
One expects philosophy to promote, and even to accelerate, the practical and technical business of culture by alleviating it, making it easier. {9}
The disciple of philosophy must present itself, first as a way of thinking and then as a way of life.
Shall I tell you what philosophy holds out to humanity? Counsel.
Philosophy addresses, in a systematic and progress-making way, questions of deep concern to everyone.
Philosophy is a will to confront human artifice with its outside, with Nature.
The initial animosity between divergent approaches can be overcome if we realize that each has something to offer that the other lacks. We may weave them together into a new whole that is stronger than the sum of its parts.
Philosophy unravels the knots in our thinking; hence its results must be simple, but its activity is as complicated as the knots that it unravels.
Philosophy ... bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.
Philosophy is the art and law of life, and it teaches us what to do in all cases, and, like good marksmen, to hit the white at any distance.
There is no exercise of the intellect which is not, in the final analysis, useless. A philosophical doctrine begins as a plausible description of the universe; with the passage of the years it becomes a mere chapter if not a paragraph or a name in the history of philosophy.
Principles are like a seed in the ground; they must continually be visited with heavenly influences or else your life will be a barren field.
Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.
This is an accessible work of philosophy in the best sense, sharply focused on matters of vital human concern and free of the domain tics that mar even allegedly popular works by Anglo-American philosophers.
physical, philosophical, and moral
The emblem of a philosophy is not that it contains a set of specific thoughts , but that it generates a way of thinking.
We developed a philosophical credo and applied it consistently. We accept that morality, power, and consensus are the underpinnings for any society and work to maintain all three in balance. Trust and mutual respect are, in a way, the mortar that hold the other three together.
When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.
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The problem with philosphy problems is that they don't have proper solutions
We have to reconcile ourselves with philosophical questions in every field. Every field should be open to inquiry and knowledge.
What is philosophy? It is something that lightens up, that makes bright.
Philosophy can help laymen spot and reject the numerous pseudoscientific beliefs that survive in the media, such as the fantasies of psychoanalysts, evolutionary psychologists, and economic equilibrium theorists.
Philosophy is an act of living.
To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.
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 by the timid for the timid.
Philosophy seeks to explain life and portray how life should be lived
What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.
If I had to define my philosophy, it would be about exploration, a journey, a story-telling.
Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.
I don't have a philosophy. I have a camera. I look into the camera and take pictures. My photographs are the tiniest part of what I see that could be photographed. They are fragments of endless possibilities.
To philosophize with open eyes is to philosophize in the dark. Only the blind can look straight at the sun.
Our paradigms, correct or incorrect, are the sources of our attitudes and behaviors, and ultimately our relationships with others. *
Philosophy ought to question the basic assumptions of the age. Thinking through, critically and carefully, what most of us take for granted is, I believe, the chief task of philosophy, and the task that makes philosophy a worthwhile activity.
Philosophy is no longer the pillar of fire going before a few intrepid seekers after truth: it is rather an ambulance following in the wake of the struggle for existence and picking up the weak and wounded.
Philosophy fulfills the need to create for ourselves a single and complete concept of the world and of life.
Philistinism! - We have not the expression in English. Perhaps we have not the word because we have so much of the thing.
Your personal philosophy is the greatest determining factor in how your life works out.
The price of freedom - of individuality - is attention to politics, careful planning, careful organization; philosophy is no more a barrier against political disaster than it is against plague.
To philosophize means to make vivid.
Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
The truest philosophy is the one that raises the most doubts.
Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life.
Philosophy changes day by day.
Every man must have a philosophy of life,
for everyone must have a standard by which to measure his conduct.
And philosophy is nothing but a standard by which to measure.
Mere philosophy will not satisfy us. We cannot reach the goal by mere words alone. Without practice, nothing can be achieved. (3)
Philosophy teaches you to think big.
Events and circumstances sometimes conspire against us; if we insist on inflexibility for the purpose of maintaining our beliefs, we end up compromising ourselves nevertheless. We salvage one set of principles only to forsake another.
The problem of restoring integration and co-operation between man's beliefs about the world in which he lives and his beliefs about values and purposes that should direct his conduct is the deepest problem modern life. It is the problem of any philosophy that is not isolated from life.
Philosophy starts when we question ourselves and search for meaning in our lives.
There are two sorts of ignorance: we philosophize to escape ignorance; we start from the one, we repose in the other; they are the goals from which and to which we tend; and the pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is only a traveling from grave to grave.
My philosophy is TRUTH unto me. Through expressing my individuality I become free.
Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
Philosophy is a proud, sullen detector of the poverty and misery of man. It may turn him from the world with a proud, sturdy contempt; but it cannot come forward and say, here are rest, grace, pardon, peace, strength, and consolation.
Without claiming to be exhaustive, I maintain that every philosophy reproduces within itself, in one way or another, the conflict in which it finds itself compromised and caught up in the outside world.
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.
Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied.
Rather than make use of the human capacity to know the truth, modern philosophy has preferred to accentuate the ways in which this capacity is limited and conditioned.
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
A new philosophy, a new way of life, is not given for nothing. It has to be paid dearly for and only acquired with much patience and great effort
Philosophy itself should not be merely "the pursuit of the knowledge of the truth" but should offer a practical guide for ordinary people in their everyday lives.
One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world.
The principles you pursue becomes a worth when it reflects
Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.
If freedom is to flourish the philosophic foundations of a free society must be kept a living intellectual issue and its implementation a task which challenges the ingenuity and imagination of the liveliest minds.
Ideas, aspirations, and objectives that, by their content, transcend the established universe of discourse and action are either repelled or reduced to terms of this universe.
All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
Though we cannot totally change our nature, we may in great measure correct it by reflection and philosophy; and some philosophy is a very necessary companion in this world, where, even to the most fortunate, the chances are greatly against happiness.
Philosophy is not a theory but an activity
For through wondering human beings now and in the beginning have been led to philosophizing.
For underlying all philosophies and all religions are the facts of the human soul, which may ultimately be the arbiters of truth and error.
Human philosophy tends to shake down into values which might be categorized as intellectual, religious, moral, and aesthetic.
Principles ... become modified in practice, by facts.
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it.
Their [philosophers] thinking is, in fact, far less a discovery than a re-recognizing, a remembering, a return and a home-coming to a far-off, ancient common-household of the soul, out of which those ideas formerly grew: philosophizing is so far a kind of atavism of the highest order.
The history of modern philosophy is the history of losing and regaining the awareness of the fact that there is no third way between the Absolute and the absurd.
The various opinions of philosophers have scattered through the world as many plagues of the mind as Pandora's box did those of the body; only with this difference, that they have not left hope at the bottom.
The absolute things, the last things, the overlapping things, are the truly philosophic concerns; all superior minds feel seriously about them, and the mind with the shortest views is simply the mind of the more shallow man.
Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.
When one begins to philosophize one must be first a Spinozist. The soul must bathe itself in the aether of this single substance, in
which everything one has held dear is submerged.
Truth travels down from the heights of philosophy to the humblest walks of life, and up from the simplest perceptions of an awakened intellect to the discoveries which almost change the face of the world. At every stage of its progress it is genial, luminous, creative.
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The principles you know determines what you get
Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.
A philosophy is characterized more by the formulation of its problem than by its solution of them.
I'm not made to philosophize, I don't have the heart for it. My heart is more like a machine for making blood to be spilled in a knife fight...
The concept that I like the most, and the one that I've taken most to heart, is the belief that people can't be united or focused unless they share a common philosophy-a philosophy that gives their effort a greater meaning.
Philosophizing means, then, to ascend from public dogma to essentially private knowledge.
Philosophy begins in wonder. And at the end when philosophic thought has done its best the wonder remains.
The final arbitrator in philosophy is not how we think but what we do.
I had to philosophize. Otherwise, I could not live in this world.
Philosophy is the sum total of all that you know and what you decide is valuable.
Let no young man delay the study of philosophy, and let no old man become weary of it; for it is never too early nor too late to care for the well-being of the soul.
The philosophy which is so important in each of us is not a technical matter; it is our more or less dumb sense of what life honestly and deeply means. It is only partly got from books; it is our individual way of just seeing and feeling the total push and pressure of the cosmos.
The foundation stone of all philosophy is self-knowledge and being true to thy self. A person must address an inner necessity in order to realize the fundamental truth about oneself, seek self-improvement, and gain knowledge through experience.
Philosophy's true use - "An operating system for life's difficulties and hardships".
Philosophical dogma doesn't interest me.
The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.