Ignorance - Socrates - EN

SELF-DEVELOPMENT THROUGH PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY

"Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom."

Socrates

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"A spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It’s a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It’s already there."
Billy Corgan
"The saddest part about being human is not paying attention. Presence is the gift of life."
Stephen Levine
"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light within the heart."
Khalil Gibran
"As you awaken to your divine nature, you’ll begin to appreciate beauty in everything you see, touch and experience."
Wayne Dyer
"Spiritual awareness is an understanding of being embedded in a larger whole, a cosmic whole, of belonging to the universe."
Fritjof Capra
"As an irrigator guides water to the field, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape their lives."
Buddha
"Inner peace doesn’t come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are."
Marianne Williamson
"To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you."
Thich Nhat Hanh
"You have to grow from the inside out. There is no other teacher but your own soul."
Swami Vivekananda
"One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living."
Elizabeth Lesser
"If you want a chicken to be a duck and a duck to be a chicken, you will suffer."
Ajahn Chah
"Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love."
Khalil Gibran
"The more one meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large."
Confucius
"A human being is a part of the whole that we call the universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest . . . a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. The illusion is a prison for us, restricting us to our personal closeness and affection for only the few people nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living beings and all of nature."
Albert Einstein
"The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind."
Khalil Gibran

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The Practical Philosophy introductory courses are given in English, usually on Monday evenings, and are held in-person at the School house in Brussels. Separate courses are also available in French and Dutch. Visit our French or Dutch language websites for more information.


A real taste of philosophy

The next 10-week introductory course in Practical Philosophy starts September 21, 2026, at the School house in Brussels. 

Sessions are interactive, encouraging discussion with the tutor and between group members. The course fee is €90 which covers the 10 week term. Under-25 rate, €40.