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Never call yourself a philosopher, nor talk a great deal among the unlearned about theorems, but act conformably to them. Thus,...

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 Never call yourself a philosopher, nor talk a great deal among the unlearned about theorems, but act conformably to them. Thus,...

May 21,2021

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To be a philosopher, that is to say, a lover of wisdom (for wisdom is nothing but truth), it is not enough for a man to

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 To be a philosopher, that is to say, a lover of wisdom (for wisdom is nothing but truth), it is not enough for a man to

Apr 17,2021

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To live alone one must be an animal or a god, says Aristotle. There is yet a third case: one must be both — a philosopher.

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 To live alone one must be an animal or a god, says Aristotle. There is yet a third case: one must be both — a philosopher.

Mar 07,2021

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I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again ‘I know that that’s a tree’, pointing to a tree that

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 I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again ‘I know that that’s a tree’, pointing to a tree that

Mar 05,2021

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Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now

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 Philosophers are often like little children, who first scribble random lines on a piece of paper with their pencils, and now

Jan 10,2021

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Philosophers often seem to think that they can just ‘assign’ any meaning whatever to any word; and so no doubt, in an

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 Philosophers often seem to think that they can just ‘assign’ any meaning whatever to any word; and so no doubt, in an

Dec 30,2020

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