From William James: “Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events.”
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Quote of the day 08/24/25
From Haruki Murakami: “If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
Quote of the day 03/03/25
From Francis Bacon: “Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.”
Quote of the day 12/16/24
From Bertrand Russell: “Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
Quote of the day 09/12/24
From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “The philosopher is not a citizen of any community of ideas, that is what makes him a philosopher.”
Quote of the day 09/04/24
From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “That it doesn’t strike us at all when we look around us, move about in space, feel our own bodies, etc. etc., shows how natural these things are to us. We do not notice that we see space perspectivally or that our visual field is in some sense blurred towards the edges.Continue reading “Quote of the day 09/04/24”
Quote of the day 08/25/24
From Ludwig Wittgenstein: “Don’t, for heaven’s sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense.”