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"A philosophic sage is a person who is wise and also demonstrates the wisdom by critical, second-order thinking about the accepted customs, beliefs and traditions of his people."

— Henry Odera Oruka Sage Philosophy (1990)

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"The basic minimum is not a luxury or a bonus — it is a right, and its denial is not merely unfortunate but unjust."

Practical Philosophy: In Search of an Ethical Minimum (1997)

"Sage philosophy is the expressed thoughts of wise men and women in any given community, and is a way of thinking and explaining the world that fluctuates between popular wisdom and didactic wisdom."

"There are in Africa men and women of great wisdom. The fact that their wisdom is not written down does not make it less philosophical—it makes it harder to recover, and this recovery is the task of sage philosophy."

Sage Philosophy (1990)

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