Philosophy teaches us and unsettles us by confronting us with what we already know; there's an irony: the difficulty consisted in this course is that it teaches what you already know; it works by taking what we know from familiar and unquestioned settings and making it strange. that's how the examples work.. philosophy estranges us, not by providing us with new information, but by inviting and provoking a new way of seeing. The risk is once the familiar turns strange it is never quiet the same again. Self-knowledge is like a lost innocence, however unsettling, you find it; it can never be unthought or unknown. Michael J. Sandel
If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else.
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Marvin Gaye
Life without love, is the soul without the spirit.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
One spirit, one shepherd
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Lailah Gifty Akita
The wound is the seed of wonder.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
The mystery of the moment is indescribable.
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Lailah Gifty Akita
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[T]he state should not impose a preferred way of life, but should leave its citizens as free as possible to choose their own values and ends, consistent with a similar liberty for others.
Philosophy teaches us and unsettles us by confronting us with what we already know; there's an irony: the difficulty consisted in this course is that it teaches what you already know; it works by taking what we know from familiar and unquestioned settings and making...
