Discourse Quote by Cornel West

Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.

— William James

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits. It works in the minutest crannies and it opens outthe…

— William James

Philosophy appears to some people as a homogenous milieu: there thoughts are born and die, there systems are built, and there, in turn, they…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation. There is in the living…

— William James

the essence of philosophy is not the possession of the truth but the search for truth. ... Philosophy means to be on the way.…

— Karl Jaspers

Philosophy always requires something more, requires the eternal, the true, in contrast to which even the fullest existence as such is but a happy…

— Soren Kierkegaard

I think philosophy is all about lived experience, which is to say life in the streets, life in a variety of different contexts.

— Cornel West

Philosophy is an act of living.

— Plutarch

Philosophy is the history of philosophy.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Philosophy - reduced, as we have seen, to philosophical discourse - develops from this point on in a different atmosphere and environment from that…

— Pierre Hadot

One of the main reasons for the existence of philosophy is not that it enables you to find truth (it can never do that)…

— T. E. Hulme

“examination of its own history and of the forms of thought given the name “philosophy” indicates that “philosophy” has itself borne many fundamentally different…

— Gregory B. Sadler