#philosophers

[philosophors]

“Wherever you come near the human race there's layers and layers of nonsense.”

— Thornton Wilder

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[pratchettquotes]

One of the recurring philosophical questions is:

"Does a falling tree in the forest make a sound when there is no one to hear?"

Which says something about the nature of philosophers, because there is always someone in a forest. It may only be a badger, wondering what that cracking noise was, or a squirrel a bit puzzled by all the scenery going upwards, but someone. At the very least, if it was deep enough in the forest, millions of small gods would have heard it.

Things just happen, one after another. They don't care who knows. But history...ah, history is different. History has to be observed. Otherwise it's not history. It's just...well, things happening one after another.

Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

#history monks #small gods #discworld #terry pratchett #history #causality #events #meaning #philosophy #philosophers #observation #reality #perception #knowledge #squirrels #badgers #the nature of philosophers #things just happen #if a tree falls in a forest

[flowersforfrancis]

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[philosophybits]

I regret that for external & internal reasons I can’t do philosophy, for that’s the only work that’s given me real satisfaction. No other work really bucks me up. I’m extremely busy now & my mind is kept occupied the whole time but at the end of the day I just feel tired & sad.

Ludwig Wittgenstein, "Letter to Norman Malcolm (11 September 1943)"

#philosophy #quotes #Ludwig Wittgenstein #Letter to Norman Malcolm #philosophers #thinking #inquiry

[thirdity]

Each given system is in itself part of the enslaving snare of delusion; in other words, as soon as I avow one philosopher or system (e.g., Spinoza or Schopenhauer or Kant or Anaxagoras or Parmenides or Gnosticism) I have become again or more ensnared, as I am by this spatiotemporal world itself; it is as if the eidos of Truth is exploded and splintered like all the eide. And all the Selves and Souls. [...] Of course this means that I can never come up with the whole, true, complete explanation/answer. I can re-collect and re-collect, do better and better, but never completely make unified the eidos of Truth.

Philip K. Dick, The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick

#philosophers #systems #metaphysics #separation #distinctions #unity #whole #ultimate #quotes #Philip K. Dick #The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick

[czortofbaldmountain]

Nietzsche: The worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself.

Plato: I thought I was your worst enemy.

Nietzsche: I have a life outside of you, Plato.

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[thatsbelievable]

#Philosophers Assemble! #philosophy #philosopher #philosophers

[empirearchives]

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[epicforwards]

"Choice, not chance, determines your destiny." -- Aristotle

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[impoliticwestie]

One Flight Up: Philosophers

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[jamesmassino]

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[philosophors]

“He who dares not offend cannot be honest.”

— Thomas Paine

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[pratchettquotes]

Teppic stared into his wine mug. These men are philosophers, he thought. They had told him so. So their brains must be so big that they have room for ideas that no one else would consider for five seconds. On the way to the tavern Xeno had explained to him, for example, why it was logically impossible to fall out of a tree.

Terry Pratchett, Pyramids

#teppic #xeno #pyramids #discworld #terry pratchett #philosophers #philosophy #logic #intelligent #wisdom #ideas #impractical #logically impossible #room for ideas

[flowersforfrancis]

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[philosophybits]

Certainly it is difficult, given sedentary habits of life, to be a good philosopher. ... The business must be undertaken by homeless adventurers, born nomads, to whom ubi bene ibi patria [home is wherever there is good].

Lev Shestov, All Things Are Possible

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[shitpeoplesayinsplatoon]

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