Category: Aphorisms and Observations
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Of Body and Buddha
When functioning optimally the body can seem, not only an adequate vehicle of our subjectivity, but a fitting and final realization of it as well. Soon enough, however, Buddha's Big Three shatters the illusion: sickness, old age, and death. Everything partite is slated for partition. Shunning inanition, maintaining a wholesome spiritual ambition, work out your…
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Proof That No One is Wise
Correct a wise man and he will (sincerely) thank you.
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All Sins of the Spirit
All sins are of the spirit even those that are of the flesh.
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Dubious Compensation
In compensation for hearing loss nature gives the old man bigger ears.
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Reason with Liberals?
One cannot reason with those who are permanently in a state of self-colonoscopy.
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Doubting and Believing
Doubting no more confers dubitability upon that which is doubted than believing bestows credibility upon that which is believed.
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Keeping an Eye on the Political
Did the Jews of Europe keep a sharp eye on the political from, say, 1923 to 1933 when Hitler acceded to power? Not very well, as the sequel showed. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
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The Beaters of the Beaten Path
Their space is narrowly hodological: marked by paths along which merely practical needs are met and merely practical tasks discharged. What lies off these beaten paths is as good as nonexistent to them. As their space, so their lives. The pleasures of meandering the byways are foreign to them.
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Reason’s Limits
It is quite unreasonable to suppose that the appeal to sweet reason is the best way forward in all of life's situations. The reasonable appreciate that the hard fist of unreason applied to the visage of evil intransigence is sometimes the most cogent of 'arguments.' It is unreasonable to be reasonable in all things.
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Why Faith?
If we need truth we cannot know, then we need faith.
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Langeweile
For the bored, life is not a brevity but a long while.
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Between the Inhuman and the Unphilosophical
It would be inhuman to care not at all about the praise of one's fellows, but unphilosophical to care much.
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Philosophers Should Try to Live a Long Time
Cognitive justice demands that philosophers try to live as long as possible so as to view life from all temporal perspectives.
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Printer’s Ink
Don't confuse printer's ink with the embalming fluid of Truth Herself.
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It Is What It Is
An index of our wretchedness is that we fall back on tautologies for solace.