If God had meant us to go metric, why did he give Christ twelve apostles?
Hegel said that `truth` is subjective, thus rejecting the existence of any `truth` above or beyond human reason. All knowledge is human knowledge.
But understanding will always require some effort. You probably wouldn't admire a friend who was good at everything if it cost her no effort.
The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder.
History is one long chain of reflections. Hegel also indicated certain rules that apply for this chain of reflections. Anyone studying history in depth will observe that a thought is usually proposed on the basis of other, previously proposed thoughts. But as soon as one thought is proposed, it will be contradicted by another. A tension arises between these two opposite ways of thinking. But the tension is resolved by the proposal of a third thought which accommodates the best of both points of view. Hegel calls this a dialectic process
going only part of the way is not the same as going the wrong way
Philosophy is the opposite of fairy tales
The secret to finding our passion is that we bring passion in everything that we do.
I don't behave the way people necessarily want me to, but I tried behaving that other way for a short period of time and it didn't take.
You are the architect of your own life.
If you provide good alternatives for public transport, you won't have traffic problems.