{"id":3159,"date":"2020-05-02T15:26:30","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T15:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/05\/02\/style-and-thought\/"},"modified":"2020-05-02T15:26:30","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T15:26:30","slug":"style-and-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/05\/02\/style-and-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"Style and Thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-body\">\n<p class=\"firstinpost\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">I sing the praises of Joseph Joubert, but here is a very bad aphorism of his:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>The style is the thought itself.<\/strong> (<em>Notebooks<\/em>, p. 44)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">This is an exaggeration so absurd that not even a Frenchman should be allowed to get away with it. Much, much better is this brilliancy from the pen of Schopenhauer:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Style is the physiognomy of the mind.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\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 should be allowed to get away with it. Much, much better is this brilliancy from the pen of Schopenhauer: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2020\/05\/02\/style-and-thought\/\" 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":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-by-others"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159","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=3159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}