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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.]
You see things; and you say, "Why"; But I dream things that never
were; and I say, "Why not?"
You see things; and you say, "Why"; But I dream things that never
were; and I say, "Why not?"
The Beginning of Philosophy . . . is a Consciousness of your own
Weakness and inability in necessary things.
The Beginning of Philosophy . . . is a Consciousness of your own
Weakness and inability in necessary things.
The wise man questions the wisdom of others because he questions his own, the foolish man, because it is different read more
The wise man questions the wisdom of others because he questions his own, the foolish man, because it is different from his own.
A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them.
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
The man of science is a poor philosopher.
The man of science is a poor philosopher.
