The Study Of Philosophy

The Study Of Philosophy

The study of philosophy

Depends on one thing after all

Which is—it starts from ABC—

One incident that I recall,

In asking a department head

If I’d be ready to start out

Philosophy? All that he said

Is—that is what it is about.

From the beginning, he would say,

Is whence a person has to start;

Whilst everything goes by the way 

Of setting out once you depart.

And so the Chinese saying goes,

That journey which is very far

Begins with one step which is close

To starting out from where you are.