If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants
If you wish to understand a philosopher, do not ask what he says, but find out what he wants
To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case one must be both -- a philosopher.
Can an ass be tragic To perish under a burden one can neither bear nor throw off The case of the philosopher.
Supposing that Truth is a woman ---well, now, is there not some foundation for suspecting that all philosophers, insofar as they were dogmatists, have not known how to handle women
But in the end one also has to understand that the needs that religion has satisfied and philosophy is now supposed to satisfy are not immutable they can be weakened and exterminated. Consider, for example, that Christian distress of mind that comes from sighing over ones inner depravity and care for ones salvation -- all concepts originating in nothing but errors of reason and deserving, not satisfaction, but obliteration.
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