![]() ![]() ![]() And even if the philosophic friends are compelled to be members of a sect or to found one, they are not necessarily members of one and the same sect: Amicus Plato. Socrates He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. Socrates Worthless people live only to eat and drink people of worth eat and drink only to live. But the philosopher does not necessarily succumb to this danger, as is shown by Socrates, who never belonged to a sect and never founded one. Socrates Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. The danger of succumbing to the attraction of solutions is essential to philosophy which, without incurring this danger, would degenerate into playing with the problems. ![]() Therefore the philosopher ceases to be a philosopher at the moment at which the 'subjective certainty' of a solution becomes stronger than his awareness of the problematic character of that solution. Yet as long as there is no wisdom but only quest for wisdom, the evidence of all solutions is necessarily smaller than the evidence of the problems. It is impossible to think about these problems without becoming inclined toward a solution, toward one or the other of the very few typical solutions. “Philosophy as such is nothing but genuine awareness of the problems, i.e., of the fundamental and comprehensive problems. ![]()
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