"Life without a philosophy is like a ship without a rudder", do you agree ?

Ardath Templer: I agree, but I think the comparison fails at one point. You're not going to have a ship without a rudder. Nobody will get a ship where you have no control over it's direction (and more importantly: no way to control it to get back to land).But there are plenty of people that live life intuitively. Just going with the flow of whatever they intuitively feel is right or wrong, not really spending the time to find rationale or logic to go with it. Even the philosophy "go with the flow" wouldn't apply to these people as they are not actually applying this philosophy to their life.The thing is that a ship without rudder has no direction other than what is given to it from the outside world. A life without a philosophy can be lived with direction, only it would be determined in the present moment, in response to a specific situation, rather than built up in the past and applied to create the sense of direction in the person....Show more

Javier Holsonback: Y! es I agree, My (pagan) philosophy is that god is nature; nature is god,and that to be truly alive, your existance must be irrevocably connected to the beauty of the natural landscape and the sky and trees and plants, and the mystery and miracle of the changing seasons.

Jacques Vaquera: Life without philosophy is like health without disease or productivity without welfare or honest government without democrats.

Adrian Sherlin: Yes and no - You need standards but your standards will embody your philosophy. Mine may be found in the Desiderata by Max Ehrmann.

Bud Espenshade: Yes.God finally told, “none of my creations can get rid of divisibility, comparability, connectivity, disturbability, reorderability, substituablity and satisfiability." Men and woman born under heaven with my wisdom are to experience and reveal these indestructible properties of mine through everyone and everything. My sons who realize my indestructible wisdom through these properties p! rosper in my kingdom. My sons who attempt to destroy my indest! ructible properties destroy their prosperity and acquire insanity....Show more

Herma Ellebrecht: nodrink only good beer

Raleigh Lufkin: Yes, Mine is only 20 letters "If it is to be, it is up to me"

Magda Vandergriend: I don't agree. A philosophy is the development mostly of the mind. I believe mostly in intangible hard won goodness I believe is in every man.

Raye Tredennick: I don't find the rudder to be analogous to philosophy, I think our mindwould fit that role. I would see the ocean the ship is traveling containingthe philosophies of life and our mind the rudder steering us toward them.