Warning: Undefined array key "visitor_referer_type" in /var/www/vhosts/wordinf.com/core/app/libraries/Core.php on line 98
Richard Weaver - When we affirm that philosophy begins...
When we affirm that philosophy begins with wonder, we are affirming in effect that sentiment is prior to reason. (Richard Weaver)

When we affirm that philosophy begins with wonder, we are affirming in effect that sentiment is prior to reason.

Richard Weaver

Related topics

affirming effect philosophy prior reason sentiment wonder

Related quotes

Footprints in the snow have been unfailing provokers of sentiment ever since snow was first a white wonder in this drab-coloured world of ours. View quote
Kenneth Grahame
They opposed brute force to reason and philosophy, and battalions of foreign mercenaries to ideas. As if ideas were to be impaled on bayonets! View quote
Rafael Sabatini
It is within science itself, and not in some prior philosophy, that reality is to be identified and described. View quote
Willard van Orman Quine
Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, research is the means of all learning, and ignorance is the end. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends. ... But the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge