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It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand read more
No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry, for instance, still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially, it takes over your spirit. It drags it out from where it would hide. - Spinster.
Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by
category-disciplines.
Philosophy is the replacement of category-habits by
category-disciplines.
He who runs behind truck is exhausted, he who runs in front of truck is tired.
He who runs behind truck is exhausted, he who runs in front of truck is tired.
Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher,
And had read ev'ry text and gloss over
Whate'er the crabbed'st read more
Beside, he was a shrewd philosopher,
And had read ev'ry text and gloss over
Whate'er the crabbed'st author hath,
He understood b' implicit faith.
That stone, . . .
Philosophers in vain so long have sought.
That stone, . . .
Philosophers in vain so long have sought.
This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant
jade on a journey.
This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant
jade on a journey.
