{"id":12887,"date":"2008-12-18T15:39:54","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T15:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2008\/12\/18\/style-and-thought-2\/"},"modified":"2008-12-18T15:39:54","modified_gmt":"2008-12-18T15:39:54","slug":"style-and-thought-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2008\/12\/18\/style-and-thought-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Style and Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"firstinpost\">I sing the praises of Joseph Joubert, but here is a very bad aphorism of his:<\/p>\n<p><strong>The style is the thought itself.<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/shop\/product?usca_p=t&amp;product_id=4559\">Notebooks<\/a>, p. 44)<\/p>\n<p>This is an exaggeration so absurd that not even a Frenchman can get away with it. Much, much better is this brilliancy from the pen of Schopenhauer:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Style is the physiognomy of the mind.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sing the praises of Joseph Joubert, but here is a very bad aphorism of his: The style is the thought itself. (Notebooks, p. 44) This is an exaggeration so absurd that not even a Frenchman can get away with it. Much, much better is this brilliancy from the pen of Schopenhauer: Style is the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2008\/12\/18\/style-and-thought-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Style and Thought&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,771],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-by-others","category-joubert-joseph"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}