Philosophy Quote by Gerald M. Givens — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist.”

“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?”

“Not bad, not bad at all," Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text.”

“The value of philosophy is, in fact, to be sought largely in its very uncertainty. The man who has no tincture of philosophy goes through life imprisoned in the prejudices derived from common sense, from the habitual beliefs of his age or his nation, and from convictions which have grown up in his mind without the co-operation or consent of his deliberate reason. To such a man the world tends to become definite, finite, obvious; common objects rouse no questions, and unfamiliar possibilities are contemptuously rejected. As soon as we begin to philosophize, on the contrary, we find, as we saw in our opening chapters, that even the most everyday things lead to problems to which only very incomplete answers can be given….”

“A mother gives you a life, a mother-in-law gives you her life.”