[b]Philosophy Tweets
“You should approach Joyce’s Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith”. William Faulkner[/b]
My guess: More or less blind.
“Facts and truth really don’t have much to do with each other.” William Faulkner
How can this not be ironic? Or perfectly natural.
“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” Plato
Tell them that.
“It is fatuous to apologise for the bad behaviour of our ancestors. In fact, it is impossible.” Mary Warnock
That never stops most of us though.
“Philosophy seems to stop being interesting just when it starts being professional.” Mary Warnock
Analytically as it were.
“Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them”. David Hume
Three words: Context. Context. Context.