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The

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keeping of notes is not an attempt at

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sealing reality into pages, but sealing

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parts of myself into time to freeze who

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I was.

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It's a record of feeling. How did the

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first signs of spring feel? Is spring

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the same for me this year or am I

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somehow changed,

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evolved?

“Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face--there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being able to see it, and of not being able to stare into his own eyes.

Only in the water of rivers and ponds could he look at his face. And the very posture he had to assume was symbolic. He had to bend over, stoop down, to commit the ignominy... See more

I needn't argue about that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now

research is not about political ideology unless you're researching

political ideology.

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So a conservative philosopher,

for example, it kind of sounds like they're not interested in any other truth

than the one they are already interested in.

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And that is what I would call a pseudo

intellectual bordering on solipsism, when it gets right down to it,

b... See more

I try to explain to my students

that wisdom is knowledge and application. It's not just knowing. You have to be able to use that knowledge

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for the - whatever -

for the improvement of society, for the betterment of your family

for the security of your situation, etc.

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and that is what brings it

out of the academy or out of the ivory tower, if you... See more

The duty of philosophy is to make you realize what deep shit you are in. Not so much to directly solve problems, but to analyze it and expose how the problem is framed is already reflexively a part of the problem itself.

One might simplify this by saying : men act and women appear . Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves. The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object – and most... See more