Philosophers on Philosophy

"The unexamined life is not worth living"

- Socrates

"I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace."

- Baruch Spinoza

"Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as a rule, be known to be true, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves; because these questions enlarge our conception of what is possible, enrich our intellectual imagination and diminish the dogmatic assurance which closes the mind against speculation; but above all because, through the greatness of the universe which philosophy contemplates, the mind also is rendered great..."

- Bertrand Russell

"Philosophy is the eternal search for truth, a search which inevitably fails and yet is never defeated; which continually eludes us, but which always guides us. This free, intellectual life of the mind is the noblest inheritance of the Western world; it is also the hope of our future."

- W.T. Jones