I, wisdom, was with the Lord when He began His work, long before He made anything else. I was created in the very beginning, even before the world began.
Proverbs 8:22-23
The scientific, the philosophical, the aesthetic, and the religious are the four major paths to human Understanding. Most couple these with each other, creating broader paths that encompass more senses and abilities, thus hopefully creating a fuller vision of the universe. All these paths seek to find that subtle secret song of the complete purpose of existence; this purpose which must have existed before there was something to have been purposed. It is in seeking this that one finds one’s self a magnificent portal of thought through which perception, discernment, understanding, and truth all come to focus in the first and final accretion, Wisdom.
'We all start from naive realism, i.e., the doctrine that things are what they seem. We think that grass is green, that stones are hard, and that snow is cold. But physics assures us that the greenness of grass, the hardness of stones, and the coldness of snow are not the greenness, hardness, and coldness that we know in our own experience, but something very different. The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.' – Albert Einstein
The Scientific splits into two correlating trails that often cross and join in their independent studies, the two being Pure Science and Applied Science. Pure science seeks the knowledge of facts of perception without bias for intent thus finding its individuality from applied science. Both adhere to a procedure that is avowedly, if not actually, objective, candid, and impersonal. The scientific path of understanding satisfies the one who is most interested in the world, laws, utilities, and structure of nature. The underlying principle of existence found in the study of Science speaks softly of a steady regularity and dependability. But the scientific mind understands that it can only hold so much of such a complete picture of nature’s facets.
The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality, which is the object of knowledge. And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth? (Plato, 380BC)
Philosophy is a comprehensive approach of intellect to form a concept of the world that will enable us to understand its whole significance. Philosophy’s intent is to form a body of thought that is reasonable and self-supportive and that correlates contributions from both science and experience. Its motive is a love for speculation that pushes it toward an intellectual harmony and satisfaction, by way of logic. Philosophy’s greatest power is its greatest flaw, imagination. Philosophical arguments seek to complete themselves with imagination when its more solid tools have broken upon the cliffs of ignorance. But in so doing great things have come to be, for imagination is based upon scientific observation and the knowledge of self both of which are some of the most solid forms of possible understanding available. So having seen similar cliffs erode over time due to certain circumstances, the human imagination might be able to formulate a picture of what this certain mystery would look like having eroded into new-found knowledge.
The truly cultured man sees in every bush a flaming world of loveliness and inspiration. –Karl R. Stolz
Art is a powerful approach to the universe when it is motivated by a search for beauty as a cherished value. The pinnacle of the aesthetic impulse is more than mere random genius; it is a vibrant aspiration for a real experience. Song, poetry, and beauty are instigators of emotion; they are the motivation of ideals. They incite hope, courage, grief, and all the rest of the spectrum, thus fueling the thoughts of self that form the basis of so much that we call experience. Every other approach to the identification and accumulation of Wisdom often finds itself referring to art as an explanation or representation of itself. The beauty of an atom, the coherence of a thought, and the eloquence of a novel all express the similarity of the pursuit of wisdom.
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