The trouble with bullshit
by Deniz Cem Önduygu
is that it’s a greater enemy of the truth than lies are. (Harry Frankfurt)
The Trouble With Everything
Category: Philosophy
February 1, 2012
The trouble with freedom
by vandal mimar
is that we feel free because we lack the very language to articulate our unfreedom. (Slavoj Žižek)
Like this:
January 25, 2012
The trouble with God
by Deniz Cem Önduygu
is that when you talk to Him you’re religious but when He talks to you you’re psychotic. (House on House MD #2.19)
January 17, 2012
The trouble with Immanuel Kant
by Deniz Cem Önduygu
is that he was skeptical in intellectual matters, but believed implicitly in the maxims that he had imbibed at his mother’s knee in moral matters. (Bertrand Russell, Why I Am Not a Christian)
January 9, 2012
The trouble with John Searle
by Deniz Cem Önduygu
is that he trusts intuitions so much that he could even reject the Copernican Revolution.
January 5, 2012
The trouble with atheism
by Deniz Cem Önduygu
is that it’s a term that should not even exist; no one ever needs to identify himself as a “non-astrologer” or a “non-alchemist.” (Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation)
Like this:
January 3, 2012
The trouble with imagination
by vandal mimar
is that it makes you human and makes you a fool; it gives you all the world and exiles you from it. (Ursula K. Le Guin)
December 28, 2011
The trouble with Donald Kuspit
by Deniz Cem Önduygu
is that he is a great art theorist on the condition that he’s put in a time-machine and sent back to the 1910s.
December 27, 2011
The trouble with French philosophers
by Deniz Cem Önduygu
is that, in order to be taken seriously by them, 25% of what you write has to be impenetrable nonsense. (Michel Foucault, quoted by John Searle)
