Yaïr
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Robert S. Hartman
The outstanding feature of a dead personis that nothing happens with him anymore, that he is nosource any more of properties or features. All he is a memory,a thought. The concept of non-existence is a relapse intoparticularity -as the individual was, according to Schopenhauer, before his birth, in the glances of his progenitors.He thus is an existence between two essences, anticipationand memory. There are other examples which illustrate thelogical process from particularity to singularity, but whathas been said may suffice to show that there is such aprocess, that it includes existence, and that it is one of valuation.
Bad Beliefs: Why They Happen to Good People
(...)cultural cognition often succeeds in identifying the signal amid the noise without the need for statistical tools.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Dull Sphinx, Jove keep thy five wits!
Thy sight is growing blear;
Rue, myrrh, and cummin for the Sphinx--
Her muddy eyes to clear!"--
The old Sphinx bit her thick lip,--
Said, "Who taught thee me to name?
I am thy spirit, yoke-fellow,
Of thine eye I am eyebeam.
"Thou art the unanswered question;
Couldst see they proper eye,
Alway it asketh, asketh;
And each answer is a lie.
So take thy quest through nature,
It through thousand natures ply;
Ask on, thou clothed eternity;
Time is the false reply."
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Essays in Radical Empiricism
There is, I mean, no aboriginal stuff or quality of being,[4] contrasted with that of which material objects are made, out of which our thoughts of them are made; but there is a function in experience which thoughts perform, and for the performance of which this quality of being is invoked. That function is knowing. ‘Consciousness’ is supposed necessary to explain the fact that things not only are, but get reported, are known.
[4] [Similarly, there is no “activity of ‘consciousness’ as such.”]
William James
et non vultis venire ad me ut vitam habeatis
yaşama kavuşmak için bana gelmek istemiyorsunuz
Sartor Resartus [ 9- The Everlasting Yea ]
Now consider that we have the valuation of our own deserts ourselves, and what a fund of Self-conceit there is in each of us,—do you wonder that the balance should so often dip the wrong way, and many a Blockhead cry: See there, what a payment; was ever worthy gentleman so used!—I tell thee, Blockhead, it all comes of thy Vanity; of what thou fanciest those same deserts of thine to be. Fancy that thou deservest to be hanged (as is most likely), thou wilt feel it happiness to be only shot: fancy that thou deservest to be hanged in a hair-halter, it will be a luxury to die in hemp.
Thomas Carlyle
Sartor Resartus [6 - Sorrows of Teufelsdröckh]
To our less philosophical readers, for example, it is now clear that the so passionate Teufelsdröckh, precipitated through “a shivered Universe” in this extraordinary way, has only one of three things which he can next do: Establish himself in Bedlam; begin writing Satanic Poetry;or blow out his brains.
Thomas Carlyle
Natural Causes and Supernatural Seemings - Henry Maudsley
.. attaching to the operations of the sound mind is the exceeding activity of imagination, which is a prolific faculty or function always eager and pleased to exercise itself. The quick way in which it hastens to fill the voids of knowledge with fictions and theories affords a remarkable contrast to the slow, toilsome, and comparatively unwelcome work of observation and reasoning.
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Edmund Husserl’s Theory of Meaning - J. N. Mohanty
Philosophy cannot legislate as to what should and what should not be treated as meaningful.
Syf.34
(...), leave God out of this. He wants no part of what happens next.