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Quotation from The Discourses by Epictetus
“The beginning of philosophy to him at least who enters on it in the right way and by the door, is a consciousness of his own weakness and inability about necessary things”
The Discourses, Book II, Ch. 11, trans. George Long (1877)
Philosophy starts when a person notices that his confident notions of good and evil conflict with one another and need a standard.
Citation: "The beginning of philosophy to him at least who enters on it in the right way and by the door, is a consciousness of his own weakness and inability about necessary things" — Epictetus, The Discourses, Book II, Ch. 11, trans. George Long (1877). (id epictetus-discourses-q6)
