No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand read more

No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide. - Spinster.

Philosophy, when superficially studied, excites doubt; when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

Philosophy, when superficially studied, excites doubt; when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.

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

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

It is easy to build a philosophy--it doesn't have to run.

It is easy to build a philosophy--it doesn't have to run.

The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our
difference: to be in hell is to drift: to read more

The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our
difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to
steer.

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.

Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

Philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

That stone, . . .
Philosophers in vain so long have sought.

That stone, . . .
Philosophers in vain so long have sought.

Dubito ergo cogito; cogito ergo sum.(I doubt, therefore I think; I think therefore I am)

Dubito ergo cogito; cogito ergo sum.(I doubt, therefore I think; I think therefore I am)