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Quotation for Today – 10 March 2012
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; it costs nothing. Edmund Burke … more →
The Inquiring Mind
Only the Doer Learns - A Little Context
wrote 1 day ago: A short while ago, I tracked down the source of a quotation that had been wrongly attributed to Kant … more →
aurelius' wager
wrote 2 months ago: “Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how dev … more →
Quotation for Today - 10 March 2012
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wrote 1 year ago: Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond prom … more →
Philosophical Quotes
wrote 1 year ago: Philosophical Quotes Philosophical Quotes We are more often treacherous through weakness than throug … more →
Philosophical Quotations
wrote 1 year ago: Philosophical Quotations Smartness of a person can be judged by the way a person answers unexpected … more →
"for how can I go so far as to try to use language to get between pain and expression?"
wrote 2 years ago: Wittgenstein‘s ‘private language’ argument § 244. How do words refer to sensations … more →
Quotation for Today, Friday 5 March
wrote 3 years ago: “If [a politician] doesn’t display courage,the chances are that he will never become the leader, or … more →
boredom / happiness studies: adorno on the fetishism of suntanning & schopenhauer
wrote 3 years ago: An archetypal instance is the behaviour of those who grill themselves brown in the sun merely for th … more →
the philosophy of boredom: the boredom of philosopy
wrote 3 years ago: boredom as a philosophical problem Svendsen’s conclusion: “Boredom is life’s own g … more →
lars svendsen on writing: "my reason for writing this book was this: i was deeply bored for a while"
wrote 3 years ago: My reason for writing this book was this: I was deeply bored for a while. What made me realise the i … more →
wittgenstein on discerning the other's humanity, or not
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wrote 3 years ago: We tend to take the speech of a Chinese for inarticulate gurgling. Someone who understands Chinese w … more →
Quotation for Today, Thursday 15 October
wrote 3 years ago: “The simplification of anything is always sensational.” - G K Chesterton -Varied Types … more →
Quotation for Today, Tuesday 6 October
wrote 3 years ago: What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism.” … more →
Quotation for Today, Tuesday September 15
wrote 3 years ago: A small leak can sink a great ship. Ben Franklin … more →
paul ricoeur on narrative, identity and robert musil
wrote 3 years ago: The lesson that narrativity also has its unsettling cases is taught to perfection in contemporary … more →
françois laruelle's non-philosophy
wrote 3 years ago: Finally, someone who gets it: the decisional structure of philosophy can only be grasped non-philo … more →
more gallic wisdom: georges bataille's "the sacred conspiracy"
wrote 3 years ago: Georges Bataille, The Sacred Conspiracy (1936) A nation already old and corrupted which will c … more →
Quotation for Today, Friday June 19
wrote 3 years ago: A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave. … more →
a recent translation of heidegger on "the poets of the desolate"—rilke and hölderlin
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wrote 3 years ago: "where the poet belongs in the destiny of the world’s night . . ." like you, i … more →
