
“Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.”
Theaetetus, 155d
Plato, Theaetetus
“Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.”
Theaetetus, 155d
Plato, Theaetetus
“Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.”
155, The Dialogues of Plato, Volume 3, 1871, p. 377 http://books.google.com/books?id=4kQNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA377
Theaetetus
if he does depart from his state of wonder, he has ceased to philosophize.
Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), The Philosophical Act, pp. 105–106
Aids to Reflection (1873), Aphorism 107
Journals and Papers III 3284 (1841)
1840s, The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1840s
Attributed
“Love is a wonderful game which begins in fun and ends in marriage.”
Source: The 10th Victim (1965), Chapter 15 (p. 131)
Metaphysics by Aristotle – Book 1, ClassicalWisdom.com
The second sentence is in Metaphysics A 2, 928<sup>b</sup> 17–20, Aristotle: Metaphysics Beta: Symposium Aristotelicum, Michel Crubellier & Andre´ Laks, eds. (Oxford University Press, 2009), p. 4.
Metaphysics
Variant: [And] one who experiences a difficulty and who feels wonder thinks that he does not understand..., so that, if it is to escape ignorance that they have practised philosophy, then it is clearly for the sake of knowing, and not for any practical purpose, that they have pursued understanding.