"When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser." Socrates
Let's hope that never happens here, Mr. Objectivist.
"I need someone to explain to me why it’s always 'if you can’t pay rent, buy fewer lattes and avocado toasts' and not 'if you can’t pay your employees a living wage, buy fewer yachts, rockets and spacecraft'". overheard
Yo, Mr. Crony Capitalist! You're up!!
“You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.” Plotinus
Blind luck? Metaphysically?
"The best cure for the body is a quiet mind." Napoleon
In other words, what are you doing here?
"If you write a hit song it is like discovering oil in your back yard." JJ Cale
I hate when a director says to me 'Here's how I envision this scene'...excuse me? It's right here in the script - I 'envisioned' it FOR you. Do what I wrote. If you want to 'envision', you should become a writer. Where the fuck were you when the page was blank?
Next up: 'here's how I envision this post'.
To say more is to say less.
Trust me: not every single time.
Get a day job, make your money from that, and write to please yourself.
Right, coming from him. And not, say, Stephen King?
And we passed through the cavern of rats.
And we passed through the path of boiling steam.
And we passed through the country of the blind.
And we passed through the slough of despond.
And we passed through the vale of tears.
And we came, finally, to the ice caverns.
"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting." Vladimir Nabokov
Hell, that might describe anyone.
Plato: A good idea is worth dying for
Kant: The idea of the good is worth dying for
Beckett: Dying sounds like a good idea
In any event, they're all dead.
Exiled on a desert island, you get to have one work of philosophy with you – what's it going to be?
Of course: Simone de Beauvoir's novel The Blood of Others.
French philosophy: I wager God exists
German philosophy: I posit that I exist
British philosophy: I’d be mildly offended if you didn’t exist
American philosophy: I'm a material girl in a material world
The Sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
At least until it expands and swallows the Earth whole.
Some, merely to contradict what I had said, did not scruple to cast doubt upon things they had seen with their own eyes again and again.
Ah, the resident contrarians.
There are those who reason well, but they are greatly outnumbered by those who reason badly.
Tell me about it!
I would beg the wise and learned fathers of the church to consider with all diligence the difference which exists between matters of mere opinion and matters of demonstration.
Yo, Immanuel Can! Yo, her!!
I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.
Yeah, that probably means your Scripture too.
It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
Content is a glimpse of something, an encounter like a flash. It's very tiny - very tiny. Content.
My guess: not all content.
Even abstract shapes must have a likeness.
A likeness to what you might ask.
I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.
Of course, nothing is not called art these days.
Or, here, philosophy.
The texture of experience is prior to everything else.
You know, whatever that means.
I think I'm painting a picture of two women but it may turn out to be a landscape.
That's always hard to tell.
If you pick up some paint with your brush and make somebody's nose with it, this is rather ridiculous when you think of it, theoretically or philosophically. It's really absurd to make an image, like a human image, with paint, today.
Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.
Of course, I really am, right?
The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
And here, that's my job.
That sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and, like, hurt. That you will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do. That there is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness. That it is possible to fall asleep during an anxiety attack. That concentrating on anything is very hard work.
Sure, that and other things.
...logical validity is not a guarantee of truth.
And especially where I take it.
And Lo, for the Earth was empty of Form, and void. And Darkness was all over the Face of the Deep. And We said: 'Look at that fucker Dance.
That pinhead Scientologist of course.
The thing about people who are truly and malignantly crazy: their real genius is for making the people around them think they themselves are crazy.
