Sublime

From observing Elliott Smith I learned that being a decent person is terribly important, but being a “nice guy” is not important at all.

The first of the suggested definitions, and the only one that I shall consider, is set forth by Theaetetus in the words: “It seems to me that one who knows something is perceiving the thing that he knows, and, so far as I can see at present, knowledge is nothing but perception.” Socrates identifies this doctrine with that of Protagoras, that “man

It should be observed that Scepticism as a philosophy is not merely doubt, but what may be called dogmatic doubt. The man of science says “I think it is so-and-so, but I am not sure.” The man of intellectual curiosity says “I don’t know how it is, but I hope to find out.” The philosophical Sceptic says “nobody knows, and nobody ever can know.” It

Most philosophers since Descartes have attached importance to the theory of knowledge, and their doing so is largely due to him. “I think, therefore I am” makes mind more certain than matter, and my mind (for me) more certain than the minds of others.

a quip from George Bernard Shaw: “The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.”39 But this is too easy an out. Drunk people are not more self-controlled, more likely to care for others, more deeply engaged with their work, more likely to be healthy and

is—things or events are not good or bad, right or wrong, ugly or beautiful. It is we, with our particular perspectives, who add color to or subtract it from things and people.

valid.

in 2009