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by Franz Kafka

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Oct 18, 2018 11:41PM

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“I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am.”
― Michel Foucault, Tecnologías del yo y otros textos afines

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“Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.”
― Michel Foucault

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“The truly apocalyptic view of the world is that things do not repeat themselves. It isn’t absurd, e.g., to believe that the age of science and technology is the beginning of the end for humanity; that the idea of great progress is delusion, along with the idea that the truth will ultimately be known; that there is nothing good or desirable about scientific knowledge and that mankind, in seeking it, is falling into a trap. It is by no means obvious that this is not how things are.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value

tags: apocalypse, history, progress

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“Oh! To live alone, always alone, in the midst of the crowd that surrounds me, without a word of love ever coming to gladden my soul, without a friendly hand reaching out to me!”
― Herculine Barbin, Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-century French Hermaphrodite

tags: alone, hermaphrodite, intersex, loneliness, sad, sadness

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“Our craving for generality has [as one] source … our preoccupation with the method of science. I mean the method of reducing the explanation of natural phenomena to the smallest possible number of primitive natural laws; and, in mathematics, of unifying the treatment of different topics by using a generalization. Philosophers constantly see the method of science before their eyes, and are irresistibly tempted to ask and answer in the way science does. This tendency is the real source of metaphysics, and leads the philosopher into complete darkness. I want to say here that it can never be our job to reduce anything to anything, or to explain anything. Philosophy really is “purely descriptive.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

tags: ludwig-wittgenstein, metaphilosophy, philosophy, science, the-blue-book, wittgenstein

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