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Simon Sarris • Long Distance Thinking
A philosophy is the aggregate of your attitudes toward fundamental matters and is derived from a process of consciously thinking about critical issues and developing rational reasons for holding one particular belief or position rather than another.
Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh • The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership
“Philosophy isn’t a parlor trick or made for show. It’s not concerned with words, but with facts. It’s not employed for some pleasure before the day is spent, or to relieve the uneasiness of our leisure. It shapes and builds up the soul, it gives order to life, guides action, shows what should and shouldn’t be done—it sits at the rudder steering ou
... See moreRyan Holiday • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living: Featuring new translations of Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius
Philosophy, as I shall understand the word, is something intermediate between theology and science. Like theology, it consists of speculations on matters as to which definite knowledge has, so far, been unascertainable; but like science, it appeals to human reason rather than to authority, whether that of tradition or that of revelation.
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
Albert Camus wrote in his Notebooks of 1935–42: “Feelings and images multiply a philosophy by ten. People can only think in images. If you want to be a philosopher, write novels.”
Charles Johnson • The Way of the Writer: Reflections on the Art and Craft of Storytelling
As Seneca said, philosophy is not a fun trick. It’s for use—for life.