Philosophy (n.) in the West keeps discovering that its "new" positions are old ones restated — monist or pluralist, vitalist or mechanist — because those ruts are all thought can offer.
Philosophy (n.) solves most of its problems, Wittgenstein held, by getting rid of them — curing people of questions like "Why this universe?"
Philosophy (n.) is unavoidable: anyone who thinks at all is a philosopher, good or bad, since no one can think without premises about the good, the beautiful and the pleasant.
Philosophy (n.) is, for the most part, the fruitless attempt to talk oneself out of the ultimate feelings.
Philosophy (n.) lies as much in its spaces as in its lines: wisdom is recognizing what cannot be known as much as what can.
Philosophy (n.) of a rational, descriptive kind is possible only if one stands wholly outside the universe — which is why every system finally falls apart.
Philosophy (n.) heard from the awakened view sounds like children yelling "'Tis!" "'Tisn't!" until they roll over laughing.
Philosophy (n.) done in the spirit of the artist does not preach improvement; it reveals and celebrates the eternal, purposeless background of life.