#philosophy

Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating! ↗

— Iris Murdoch

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The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions. ↗

— George Henry Lewes

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Martha Stewart is extremely talented. Her designs are picture perfect. Our philosophy is life is messy, and rather than being afraid of those messes we design products that work the way we live. ↗

— Kathy Ireland

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In every ancient religious and sacred text, faith is a verb; a thing to be demonstrated. It is in modern days that we have diluted faith from an act to a philosophy. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

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I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

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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. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#being #history #intellect #itself #like

If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

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Philosophy can only be approached with the most concrete comprehension. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

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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. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

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