A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by read more

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy. - What We Live By.

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy. - What We Live By.

The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within.

The question to everyone's answer is usually asked from within.

O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and
expeller of vices! What could we and every age of read more

O philosophy, life's guide! O searcher-out of virtue and
expeller of vices! What could we and every age of men have been
without thee? Thou hast produced cities; thou hast called men
scattered about into the social enjoyment of life.
[Lat., O vitae philosophia dux! O virtutis indagatrix,
expultrixque vitiorum! Quid non modo nos, sed omnino vita
hominum sine et esse potuisset? Tu urbes peperisti; tu
dissipatos homines in societatum vitae convocasti.]

The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.

The first step towards philosophy is incredulity.

Sublime Philosophy!
Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven;
And bright with beckoning angels--but alas!
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Sublime Philosophy!
Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven;
And bright with beckoning angels--but alas!
We see thee like the patriarch, but in dreams,
By the first step,--dull slumbering on the earth.

Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to
be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and read more

Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to
be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly
recorded.