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“The spontaneous tendency to invoke a Final Cause in explanation of every difficulty is characteristic of metaphysical philosophy. It arises from a general tendency towards the impersonation of abstractions which is visible throughout History.”

Philosophy Causes Difficulty Finals Arise Tendencies Explanation Characteristics Visible Spontaneous Metaphysical Abstraction Invoke

Book:Aristotle: a chapter from the history of science including analyses of Aristotle's scientific writings

Source: Aristotle: a chapter from the history of science including analyses of Aristotle's scientific writings

“The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know.”

Knows Philosophy Difficulty

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Our design, not respecting arts, but philosophy, and our subject, not manual, but natural powers, we consider chiefly those things which relate to gravity, levity, elastic force, the resistance of fluids, and the like forces, whether attractive or impulsive; and therefore we offer this work as mathematical principles of philosophy; for all the difficulty of philosophy seems to consist in this from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena.”

Source: Newton's Principia: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy

“Both poetry and philosophy are prodigal of eulogy over the mind which ransoms itself by its own energy from a captivity to custom, which breaks the common bounds of empire, and cuts a Simplon over mountains of difficulty for its own purposes, whether of good or of evil.”

Mind Philosophy Purpose Evil Energy Common Break Cutting Mountain Difficulty Bounds Empires Customs Eulogy Captivity Prodigals Ransom

Book:Thoughts

Source: Thoughts

“Almost everybody thinks about philosophy, even if they don't realize it's philosophy and even if they have no sense of the difficulty of the problems, the array of possible answers.”

Ifs Thinking Philosophy Problem Realizing Answers Difficulty

Author:Rebecca Goldstein

“It is easier taking the beaten path than making our way over bogs and precipices. The great difficulty in philosophy is to come to every question with a mind fresh and unshackled by former theories, though strengthened by exercise and information.”

Way Mind Philosophy Path Information Theory Easier Exercise Difficulty Former Beaten Precipice Bogs Beaten Path

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)