For no one can come too early or too late to secure the health of the soul.
Philosophy is the study of fundamental problems about the nature of reality, knowledge, and value.
For example consider these problems. Those are examples of the kinds of problems studied in philosophy. They are not easy problems at all, and in fact it may be true, as some philosophers say, that those problems cannot be answered. Nevertheless, we have been studying them for at least two thousand years and no doubt will continue to do so as long as we can think. For some reason, we human beings seem to need to grapple with these problems.