Top Philosophy Quotes
Those people who shoot endless time-lapse films of unfurling roses and tulips have the wrong idea. They should train their cameras instead on the melting of pack ice, the green filling of ponds, the t...
Annie Dillard
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beauty, belief, consciousness, creation, curiosity, disbelief, energy, enoughness, epiphany, exploration
Philosophy Definition
(n.) Literally, the love of, including the search after, wisdom; in actual usage, the knowledge of phenomena as explained by, and resolved into, causes and reasons, powers and laws.
(n.) A particular philosophical system or theory; the hypothesis by which particular phenomena are explained.
(n.) Practical wisdom; calmness of temper and judgment; equanimity; fortitude; stoicism; as, to meet misfortune with philosophy.
(n.) Reasoning; argumentation.
(n.) The course of sciences read in the schools.
(n.) A treatise on philosophy.