"Philosophy is defined by everyone as love of truth and devotion to wisdom. But truth, and wisdom itself, are God alone, so it follows that lawful philosophy is not different from true religion, and lawful religion is exactly the same as true philosophy."

- Marsilio Ficino -

"Etymologically the word ‘philosophy’ comes from phylos = friend and sofia = wisdom-knowledge and therefore it means friend of knowledge-wisdom… Traditional philosophy leads to realization, it is cathartic, it is transforming because, as Plato holds, it represents a means of ascesis."

- Raphael -

"Understanding is the rarest of all faculties. It is a subtle power which adds to the intellectual concept a definite stimulating realization or intuitive grasp of the fundamental elements involved in any problem and their relationship to each other. Understanding is the ultimate stage of knowledge, it is the perfect realization of the purpose and meaning of things."

- Manly Palmer Hall -

"Wherefore philosophy, since it brings to us the greatest good, namely a liberation from the chains in which the soul is bound from the date of its birth until into time, must be sought with the most intense avidity and study."

- Iamblichus -

"We may begin by asking what this philosophy offers us. It offers those who pursue it to the end a deep understanding of the world and a satisfying explanation of the significance of human experience. It offers them the power to penetrate appearances and to discover the genuinely real from the mere appearance of reality; it offers satisfaction of that desire which everyone, everywhere, holds somewhere in his heart - the desire to be free."
"Philosophy is at one and the same time a doctrine, a practice, and a realization."

- Paul Brunton -

Those of us who love philosophy, cultivate it, and understand something about it, after a while will feel as though we are dissolving in that wonder, in that awe.

- Anthony Damianis -