“Philosophy, like science, consists of theories or insights arrived at as a result of systemic reflection or reasoning in regard to the data of experience. It involves, therefore, the analysis of experience and the synthesis of the results of analysis into a comprehensive or unitary conception. Philosophy seeks a totality and harmony of reasoned insight into the nature and meaning of all the principal aspects of reality.” PhilosophyRealityResultsTheoryReflectionAspectHarmonyRegardInsightDataAnalysisReasoningConceptionPrincipalComprehensiveTotalitySynthesis Author:Joseph Alexander Leighton
“It would be impossible to accept naturalism itself if we really and consistently believed naturalism. For naturalism is a system of thought. But for naturalism all thoughts are mere events with irrational causes. It is, to me at any rate, impossible to regard the thoughts which make up naturalism in that way and, at the same time, regard them as a real insight into external reality...If it is true, then we can know no truths. It cuts its own throat.” IfsKnowsWayRealRealityWould BeCausesAcceptingCuttingImpossibleEventsRegardMereRateInsightThroatConsistentlyIrrationalNaturalism Book:God in the Dock Source: God in the Dock
“No, the secret is that there's no reward and we have to endure our characters and our natures as best we can, because no amount of experience or insight is going to rectify our deficiencies, our self-regard, or our cupidity. We have to learn that our desires do not find any real echo in the world. We have to accept that the people we love do not love us, or not in the way we hope. We have to accept betrayal and disloyalty, and, hardest of all, that someone is finer than we are in character or intelligence.” PeopleWorldWayRealSelfCharacterDesireSecretAcceptingAmountRegardRewardsEndureInsightBetrayalHardestEchoesDeficiencyDisloyaltyRectify Author:Sándor Márai
“As regards authority I so proceed. Boetius says in the second prologue to his Arithmetic, 'If an inquirer lacks the four parts of mathematics, he has very little ability to discover truth.' And again, 'Without this theory no one can have a correct insight into truth.' And he says also, 'I warn the man who spurns these paths of knowledge that he cannot philosophize correctly.' And Again, 'It is clear that whosoever passes these by, has lost the knowledge of all learning.'” IfsMenLittlesTruthLostAbilityPathClearFourHe ManTheoryAuthorityRegardMathematicsInsightArithmeticPrologueInquirers Book:Opus Majus, Volumes 1 and 2 Source: Opus Majus, Volumes 1 and 2
“Faith is not an art. Faith is not an achievement. Faith is not a good work of which some may boast while others can excuse themselves with a shrug of the shoulders for not being capable of it. It is a decisive insight of faith itself that all of us are incapable of faith in ourselves, whether we think of its preparation, beginning, continuation, or completion.” ThinkingMayArtAchievementCapableRegardAtheistExcuseInsightBelieverShouldersPreparationGood WorkIncapableBoastImpossibilitySkepticCompletionContinuationUnbelievers Author:Karl Barth