Eric Linder’s Reviews > All Things are Possible > Status Update

“Men respond only faintly to the horrors that take place around them, except at moments, when the savage, crying incongruity and ghastliness of our condition suddenly reveals itself vivid before our eyes, and we are forced to know what we are. Then the ground glides from under our feet.

But not for long. The horror of the sensation of groundlessness quickly brings man to himself. He must forget everything,”

“The business of philosophy ups to teach man to live in uncertainty — man who is supremely afraid of uncertainty, and who is forever hiding himself behind this or the other dogma. More briefly, the business of philosophy is not to reassure people, but to upset them.”