"The Acme Of Life Is The Understanding Of Life"

Since the beginning of times, human beings have had the necessity of understanding things, they have created many different sciences in which they can explain certain concepts of our life; some other things cannot be explained with scientific methods. This is where philosophy gets into the picture. I have always asked to myself, why is philosophy important for us human beings? 

After I began reading the Questions If Life by Fernando Savater I realized that not everything in life is explained scientifically or even religiously. Learning is the base of philosophy; Socrates said, "I only know that I know nothing", this means we will not know everything there is; we will continue learning until we die. 

There is three ways of getting to know something, there is information (the Facts), there is knowledge and there is wisdom (how we interpret knowledge and information). Science consists in information and knowledge, philosophy is made of knowledge and wisdom. This is useful because even though we get some answers we keep doing more questions and we do not get a definite answer. The person who has stopped asking questions has stopped learning which in this case, ended with the cycle of our life.

In conclusion, philosophy has been here since the Greeks and before and will continue to exist. Philosophy makes us understand the things science cannot, so it will exist until the end of times.