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If my view of the function of philosophy is correct, it is the most effective of all the intellectual pursuits. It builds cathedrals before the workmen have moved a stone, and it destroys them before the elements have worn down their arches. It is the architect of the buildings of the spirit, and it is also their solvent:- and the spiritual precedes the material.
— Mar 08, 2020 07:31AM
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[N]ature gets credit for which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent: the nightingale for its song: the sun for his radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves, and turn them into odes of self-congratulation [to] the human mind. Nature is a dull affair, soundless, scentless, colorless; merely the hurrying of material, endlessly, meaninglessly.
— Mar 29, 2020 06:27AM
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The Platonic world of ideas is the refined, revised form of the Pythagorean doctrine that number lies at the base of the real world. Owing to the Greek mode of representing numbers by patterns of dots, the notions of number and of geometrical configuration are less separated than with us.
— Mar 21, 2020 08:44AM
