“Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.”
Socrates
“Philosophy begins with wonder”
“The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“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
“Wonder is the foundation of all philosophy, inquiry the progress, ignorance the end”
Michel de Montaigne
“It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize”
Aristotle
