Longing to Know Quotes

“Philosophy is difficult, like looking directly at the tip of your nose is difficult! We rely in every act of knowing on foundational philosophical beliefs.”
― Esther Lightcap Meek, Longing to Know: The Philosophy of Knowledge for Ordinary People

“A major reason, I believe, is this: It does not sit comfortably with a person to affirm, and try to live, the claim that we have access to no objective (outside of myself) truth. People are implicitly aware that this claim calls for as much justification as the claim that we do have access to objective truth.”
― Esther Lightcap Meek, Longing to Know: The Philosophy of Knowledge for Ordinary People

“And I shared with all Westerners a Greek heritage: If ancient Greece was the cradle of Western civilization, I think it fair to say that skepticism was the blanket the baby came wrapped in. How can we be sure we know anything at all?2 It”
― Esther Lightcap Meek, Longing to Know: The Philosophy of Knowledge for Ordinary People