Starting Points Quotes

“In teaching the young you have to satisfy the schoolchild in yourself and enter the region where all meanings start. That is where, in any case, the philosopher has perpetually to start.”
― William Barrett, The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization

“A goal will always tell you where you don't want to be.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“What has to be accepted, the given, is forms of life.' (Wittgenstein) This is the fact, the given, from which all thinking must start; and thinking, which starts from this fact, is in turn itself but another form of life.”
― William Barrett, The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization