Tag Name "Philosophic" (74)

As the highly colored birds do not fly around in the dull, leaden plains of a sandy desert, but amid all the settings of nature's leaves and blossoms, and lights and shades — nature's framework of their picture — so there are truths which do not appear well in arid fields of philosophic inquiry.

The third principle is that any philosophic knowledge is only valuable if it is true or if it works.