“Philosophy is not a matter of knowledge; it is a matter of understanding, that is to say, of organizing what is known.”

— Anthony Kenny

What I Believe (2006), p. 14
Source: https://books.google.com/books/about/What_I_Believe.html?id=bQnZcFiCz8QC&pg=PA14 What I Believe

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