Philosophy Can Only Be Approached With The

Even Scientific Knowledge, If There Is Anything To It, Is Not A Random Observation Of Random Objects; For The Critical Objectivity Of Significant Knowledge Is Attained As A Practice Only Philosophically In Inner Action.

Philosophy As Practice Does Not Mean Its Restriction To Utility Or Applicability, That Is, To What Serves Morality Or Produces Serenity Of Soul.

It Has Become Obligatory To Fulfil A Function Which Shall In Some Way Be Regarded As Useful To The Masses...even An Articulated Mass Always Tends To Become Unspiritual And Inhuman. It Is Life Without Existence, Superstition Without Faith. It May Stamp All Flat; It Is Disinclined To Tolerate Independence And Greatness, But Prone To Constrain People To Become As Automatic As Ants.

Just As Primitive Man Believed Himself To Stand Face To Face With Demons And Believed That Could He But Know Their Names He Would Become Their Master, So Is Contemporary Man Faced By This Incomprehensible, Which Disorders His Calculations.

When In Our Isolation We See Our Lives Seeping Away As A Mere Succession Of Moments, Tossed Meaninglessly About By Accidents And Overwhelming Events; When We Contemplate A History That Seems To Be At An End, Leaving Only Chaos Behind It, Then We Are Impelled To Raise Ourselves Above History.