Sep 24, 2025 | Wednesday Quotes
I teach philosophy, and it’s not easy–especially for the students. This is no surprise given our lofty goal to make some progress toward wisdom. Often students can have a sense that they are just not cut out for this. This can cause real grief, since surely we...
Mar 12, 2025 | Wednesday Quotes
It might seem we cannot change how things taste to us. But our wants—which determine our pleasures and pains—come under our control. It is our challenge and our glory to strive to bring our wants and tastes into conformity with the truth. Such is the ultimate...
Jun 26, 2019 | Wednesday Quotes
“Therefore we ought to attend to the undemonstrated sayings and opinions of experienced and older people or of people of practical wisdom not less than to demonstrations; for because experience has given them an eye, they see aright.” Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics...
Feb 13, 2019 | Discovering Wonder, Natural Steward, Wednesday Quotes
“Of natural bodies some have life in them, others do not.” Aristotle, On the Soul It seldom catches our attention. So easy is it for us to pass it by without noticing. That tree is alive. Choose the tree—it matters not which one: the specimen maple in...
Feb 6, 2019 | Discovering Wonder, Natural Steward, Wednesday Quotes
“For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize.” Aristotle, Metaphysics When it comes to certain wonder-full things in the world around us, life experience can have a stultifying effect in our souls. We become...
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