It's A Quote

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

‘Oh, intercourse the penguin!’ - Graham Chapman

Boru

[Angrboda]

The difference between what we might call the Aristotelian and the Wittgensteinian attitude to progress in philosophy derives from two different views of philosophy itself. Philosophy may be viewed as a science, on the one hand, or as an art, on the other. Philosophy is, indeed, uniquely difficult to classify, and resembles both the arts and the sciences.

On the one hand, philosophy seems to be like a science in that the philosopher is in pursuit of truth. Discoveries, it seems, are made in philosophy, and so the philosopher like the scientist has the excitement of belonging to an ongoing, cooperative, cumulative intellectual venture. If so, the philosopher must be familiar with current writing, and keep abreast of the state of the art. On this view, we twenty-first-century philosophers have an advantage over earlier practitioners of the discipline. We stand, no doubt, on the shoulders of other and greater philosophers, but we do stand above them. We have superannuated Plato and Kant.

On the other hand, in the arts, classic works do not date. If we want to learn physics or chemistry, as opposed to their history, we do not nowadays read Newton or Faraday. But we read the literature of Homer and Shakespeare not merely to learn about the quaint things that passed through people’s minds in far-off days of long ago. Surely, it may well be argued, the same is true of philosophy. It is not merely in a spirit of antiquarian curiosity that we read Aristotle today. Philosophy is essentially the work of individual genius, and Kant does not supersede Plato any more than Shakespeare supersedes Homer.

Kenny, Anthony. A New History of Western Philosophy.

[Angrboda]

“Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason?
Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason.”
― John Harington

[Angrboda]

During the late 1990s, [Senator Tim] Scott publicly declared himself a virgin, and claimed to have taken a pledge of abstinence until marriage.
In 2012, when asked if he was still following his pledge, he replied, "Not as well as I did then."

~ Wikipedia

[Angrboda]

"Death comes; it would be something to dread if it could stay with you. But death must either not come at all, or else it must come and pass away."

"The person who has made peace with poverty is rich."

Seneca.

[Angrboda]

"The fool needs nothing because he doesn’t know how to use anything, but he wants everything."

Seneca.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

"Death comes; it would be something to dread if it could stay with you. But death must either not come at all, or else it must come and pass away."

"The person who has made peace with poverty is rich."

Seneca.

‘It’s dead simple to praise others’ outlook on poverty when you have a personal fortune of 300 million sestertii.’ - Boru

Boru

[Angrboda]

"It began with Laocoön on the mantelpiece, his voiceless groan. The set of that mouth was often my barometer, told me the weight of day... On my weatherless days I merely existed. My body sat in a rocking chair and rocked and rocked and rocked, and my mind was as nearly empty as interstellar space."

John Barth, The End of the Road

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

'If the concept of God has any validity or use, it can only be to make us larger, freer, and more loving. If God cannot do this, it is time we got rid of him.' - James Baldwin

Boru

[Fake Messiah]

Skepticism challenges established institutions. If we teach everybody, let's say schoolchildren, the habit of being skeptical, perhaps they will not restrict their skepticism to aspirin commercials and 35,000-year-old channelers. Maybe they'll start asking awkward questions about economic, or social, or political, or religious institutions. Then where will we be?

Skepticism is dangerous. That's exactly its function, in my view. It is the business of skepticism to be dangerous. And that's why there is a great reluctance to teach it in the schools. That's why you don't find a general fluency in skepticism in the media. On the other hand, how will we negotiate a very perilous future if we don't have the elementary intellectual tools to ask searching questions of those nominally in charge, especially in a democracy?

- Carl Sagan