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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.
Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers.
[Fr., La clarte est la bonne foi des philosophes.]
Clearness marks the sincerity of philosophers.
[Fr., La clarte est la bonne foi des philosophes.]
Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently.
Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently.
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all read more
If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.
To find the exact answer, one must first ask the exact question.
To find the exact answer, one must first ask the exact question.
Every clarification breeds new questions.
Every clarification breeds new questions.
The wise man questions the wisdom of others because he questions his own, the foolish man, because it is different read more
The wise man questions the wisdom of others because he questions his own, the foolish man, because it is different from his own.
