Ed Kowalczyk Quotes

I like the big questions.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

All of my work is sort of fed by a question, a need to understand the world and why the world is what it is.

For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.

Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal.

I've deliberately studied many things that I know, going in, I won't be able to assimilate. I read Plato, St. Thomas, the mystics, to exercise my mind.

Initially, I studied philosophy, because it claimed to give you answers to the meaning of existence, but it didn't: It was basically a semantics game.

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.

The specious figments of genius, and the erratic flights of philosophy, may excite our wonder, but they cannot stand the ordeal of scrutiny, or the Lydian touch of experiment.

I grew up in a small industrial suburb of Haifa in Israel. As far back as I remember, I was interested in big questions. Who are we? What are we doing here? But the chances to discuss philosophy were quite thin on the ground.

As it is, lovers of inquiry must follow their beloved wherever it may lead.

The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder.

An image of thought called philosophy has been formed historically and it effectively stops people from thinking.

Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when man asked the first question. Social stagnation results not from a lack of answers but from the absence of the impulse to ask questions.

The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.

Let no one delay the study of philosophy while young nor weary of it when old.

Questioning is the piety of thought.

Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now ask an adult 'What is that?

Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question...awareness of the problem outlives all solutions. The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.

When people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupid.

A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.

Scientists are explorers. Philosophers are tourists.

As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.

The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems.