Sublime

Yet logical philosophy pursues its criticism further, and says that nonsense statements and exclamations of this order do not constitute philosophy because they contribute nothing to knowledge—by which they mean that they do not assist us to predict anything, and offer no directions for human conduct. That is, in part, true, though it misses the

To the degree that my quest had an object, that object turned out to be learning to live with uncertainty and incapacity.

Vi na Alemanha que Lutero deixou tantas, e mesmo mais, discórdias e desacordos sobre suas opiniões do que ele mesmo levantou a respeito das Sagradas Escrituras. Nossa contestação é verbal. Pergunto o que são natureza, prazer, círculo, fideicomisso. A questão é sobre palavras e é paga na mesma moeda. Uma pedra é um corpo: mas se pressionássemos: “E

These are not the idle speculations and sophistries of a system of subjective idealism or nihilism. They are answers to a practical problem which may be expressed thus: “If my grasping of life involves me in a vicious circle, how am I to learn not to grasp? How can I try to let go when trying is precisely not letting go?” Stated in another way, to

These words initiate a series of prudential maxims on how to conduct one’s life in the face of the unpredictability of events and their deterministic character that is beyond human control.

When I heard the answer, I said to myself, What can the god mean? and what is the interpretation of his riddle? for I know that I have no wisdom, small or great. What then can he mean when he says that I am the wisest of men? And yet he is a god, and cannot lie;

It’s not a given, at any moment, that we’ll even be able to understand what’s happening, or what a reasonable response to it might be.

Here is the reason why there was a riddle: human language is structurally incompatible with logical reasoning, and we can never have 100 percent certainty in truths expressed in human language and arrived at through deductive logic.

Such confusion is at present just the thing for me and my problem.