In France, the press is different from the way the press is here.
The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.
That is, a system starts with a group of interrelated propositions which involve reference to empirical observations within the logical framework of the propositions in question.
Some savage faculty for observation told him that most respectable and estimable people usually had a lot of books in their houses.
Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.