“Philosophy begins with wonder”
Socrates
“Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end”
Michel de Montaigne
“Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.”
“Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.”
Alfred North Whitehead
“In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to enduring fact of mystery”
Henry Miller
“It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize”
Aristotle
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