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The word philosophy in the original Greek means “love of wisdom.” The branches of philosophy are logic (thinking systemically about complicated problems), epistemology (how do I/We know that we know?), metaphysics (what is the nature of existence?), ethics (how should I/We live?), and aesthetics (what is beauty?). Science was originally called natural philosophy referring to the search for knowledge of the workings of the natural world, and encompassed today's disciplines of mathematics, astronomy, and physics.
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• “All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.” ~ Ambrose Bierce
• “Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.” ~ Samuel Beckett
• “The first study for the man who wants to be a poet is knowledge of himself, complete: he searches for his soul, he inspects it, he puts it to the test, he learns it. As soon as he has learned it, he must cultivate it! I say that one must be a seer, make oneself a seer. The poet becomes a seer through a long, immense, and reasoned derangement of all the senses. All shapes of love, suffering, madness. He searches himself, he exhausts all poisons in himself, to keep only the quintessences. Ineffable torture where he needs all his faith, all his superhuman strength, where he becomes among all men the great patient, the great criminal, the great accursed one – and the supreme Scholar! For he reaches the unknown! ....So the poet is actually a thief of Fire!” ~ Arthur Rimbaud
• “Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.” ~ Romain Rolland
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