If Philosophy Is Practice, A Demand To

A Scientific Approach Means Knowing What One Knows And What One Doesn't. Absolute Or Complete Knowledge Is Unscientific.

Man Is Always Something More Than What He Knows Of Himself. He Is Not What He Is Simply Once And For All, But Is A Process; He Is Not Merely An Extant Life, But Is, Within That Life, Endowed With Possibilities Through The Freedom He Possesses To Make Of Himself What He Will By The Activities On Which He Decides.

The History Of Philosophy Is Not, Like The History Of The Sciences, To Be Studied With The Intellect Alone. That Which Is Receptive In Us And That Which Impinges Upon Us From History Is The Reality Of Man's Being, Unfolding Itself In Thought.

If Philosophy Is Practice, A Demand To Know The Manner In Which Its History Is To Be Studied Is Entailed: A Theoretical Attitude Toward It Becomes Real Only In The Living Appropriation Of Its Contents From The Texts.

The Essence Of Philosophy Is Not The Possession Of The Truth But The Search For Truth. ... Philosophy Means To Be On The Way. Its Questions Are More Essential Than Its Answers, And Every Answer Becomes A New Question.