Showing posts with label Philosophy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Philosophy. Show all posts

10.6.11

un homme

I am a man who hates great passions.
Leave me to the peace of inevitable change.
Et si je te permettras, me demandais doucement une reponse.
For I am more inclined to stare at the clouds, and into the soul
than to break hearts and start fires.

23.5.11

Occam's Razor.

Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.


Things should not be done more times than they need to be.

20.5.11

Why I am glad I took logic.

Tu Quoque

A makes criticism P.
A is also guilty of P.
Therefore, P is dismissed.

A:It is wrong to wear clothing made of animals.
B:Aren't you wearing leather shoes?

18.2.11

"Our dislike of stillness and boredom is at root revealed to be this full-bloom metaphysical terror: 'take away their diversion and you will see them bored to extinction. Then they will feel their nullity without recognizing it, for nothing could be more wretched than to be intolerably depressed as soon as one is reduced to introspection with no means of diversion.'"

- on Pascal's Desideratum, Le Courbusier and the Concept of the Self p.132