The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
It's not a silly question if you can't answer it.
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
I was woefully ignorant in the social graces. I was being raised, after all, by Pellinore Warthrop.
She wished she could talk as he did. His speech was so quick and easy. It sounded as if he liked her and was not the least afraid she would not like him, though he was only a common moor boy, in patched clothes and with a funny face and a rough, rusty-red head.
The law of dislike for the unlike will always prevail. And whereas the unlike is normally situated at a safe distance, the Jews bring the unlike into the heart of every milieu, and must there defend a frontier line as large as the world.
Life is rather above the measure of us all (save for a very few perhaps). We all need literature that is above our measure--though we may not have sufficient energy for it all the time.