Philosophical inquiry into the forms, contents, and consequences of experience is known as philosophy. It is a quest for a comprehensive understanding of existence in all of its manifestations in the many stages of consciousness. Philosophy's basic goal is to determine the ultimate meaning and essence of existence. It is the science of reality, the foundation of the practise of justice, the law of achieving freedom and happiness, and it provides a key to the meaning and understanding of beauty. It's the path to realising who you are and what you're capable of. “Philosophy is the pursuit of wisdom, or the love of wisdom. It is a moral and intellectual science that attempts to explain the reality behind the appearances by reducing the occurrences of the cosmos to ultimate causes using reason and law.” It is founded on intuition and is intended to rationally defend one's belief in Truth.

Philosophy is a systematic and well-coordinated attempt to evaluate life and the cosmos as a whole. It is a non-judgmental approach to all challenges and elements of life. Philosophy is a broad exposition of the underlying conceptions, meanings, and values of the universe's items, based on their ultimate causes that extend beyond the senses. “Philosophy is not a wisdom of the world, but knowledge of what is not of the world; it is not knowledge of external mass or empirical existence and vitality, but knowledge of that which is everlasting, of what God is, and what flows out of His nature,” Hegel writes in his Philosophy of Religion. Philosophy is the broadest of all academic disciplines, and it serves as a touchstone for all other areas of human understanding.

Philosophy is a way of life, not a theory. It denotes a true "ownership" of wisdom, not just "love of wisdom." Philosophers are thus actual participants, not professors, academicians, or doctrinaires, or even "spectators."