Quite often we are led to aporia, an impasse, unable to proceed a step further. Socrates is almost always there, but even he is only a supporting character. The starring role is given to the philosophical question. It is the philosophical question th...
Participation in the collective life of the polis both restrains the extraordinary individual and enlarges the ordinary individual, allowing him to participate in the extraordinary. An individual can achieve participatory excellence via the accomplis...
Children, who have so much to learn in so short a time, had involved the tendency to trust adults to instruct them in the collective knowledge of our species, and this trust confers survival value. But it also makes children vulnerable to being trick...
If there is such a thing as philosophical progress, then why – unlike scientific progress – is it so invisible? Philosophical progress is invisible because it is incorporated into our points of view. What was torturously secured by complex argume...
As Lucretius says: 'Thus ever from himself doth each man flee.' But what does he gain if he does not escape from himself? He ever follows himself and weighs upon himself as his own most burdensome companion. And so we ought to understand that what we...
The Bible is the philosophy of life.
History is Philosophy teaching by example.
My philosophy is I'm raising future adults, not children.
Philosophy is nothing but discretion.
To have no time for philosophy is to be a true philosopher.
All of Western philosophy is but a footnote to .
The love of all-inclusiveness is as dangerous in philosophy as in art.
There is no philosophy without the art of ignoring objections.
Philosophy of physics is all metaphysics.
History should be written as philosophy.
History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.
My personal philosophy of life is one of ethics.
The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.
Philosophy was once considered science.
My music and lyrics became an extension of this Indian philosophy.
Philosophy is to religion as psychoanalysis is to pseudoscience
