Philosophy on wonder
6 passages from 6 thinkers — Socrates, Marcus Aurelius, Immanuel Kant, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke and others — on wonder.
“Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.”
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.”
“Curiosity is the lust of the mind.”
“Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison'd the fountain.”
“Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder.”