Human experience Quote by W. Norris Clarke

Philosophy... is the creative perception by the spirit of the meaning of human existence.

— Nikolai Berdyaev

“Philosophy is a will to confront human artifice with its outside, with Nature.”

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty

“Philosophy is the microscope of the thought.”

— Victor Hugo

Philosophy begins with the understanding that you cannot just observe or experience and then report what you see, because how you conceptualize and symbolize…

— Eugene Gendlin

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

What is philosophy? It is something that lightens up, that makes bright.

— Victor Cousin

“Every one of us, unconsciously, works out a personal philosophy of life, by which we are guided, inspired, and corrected, as time goes on.…

— George Matthew Adams

Philosophy means liberation from the - routine, soaring above the well known, seeing it in new perspectives, arousing wonder and the wish to fly.

— Walter Kaufmann

Philosophy is the microscope of thought.

— Victor Hugo

When one begins to reflect on philosophy—then philosophy seems to us to be everything, like God, and love. It is a mystical, highly potent,…

— Novalis

Philosophy, like science, consists of theories or insights arrived at as a result of systemic reflection or reasoning in regard to the data of…

— Joseph Alexander Leighton

“It seems to me that good philosophy will always have a place in the investigation of any matter of deep human importance, because of…

— Martha Nussbaum