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Poetry is essentially the antithesis of Metaphysics: Metaphysics purge the mind of the senses and cultivate the disembodiment of t ...
Upon the whole I am inclined to think that the far greater part, if not all of those difficulties, which have hitherto amused phil ...
Wittgenstein imagined that the philosopher was like a therapist whose task was to put problems finally to rest, and to cure us of ...
The Emmet's Inch and Eagle's Mile
Make Lame Philosophy to smile.
You ask: What is it that philosophers have called qualitative states? I answer, only half in jest: As Louis Armstrong is said to h ...
Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or societ ...
Chinese were born ... with an accumulated wisdom, a natural sophistication, an intelligent naivete, and unless they were transplan ...
Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates--but pages
Might be filled up, as vainly as before,
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The profoundest thoughts of the philosophers have something tricklike about them. A lot disappears in order for something to sudde ...
Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo pro ...
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