Melancholia

"Ich steh mit einem Fuß im Grabe"


(I am standing with one foot in the grave),

Saturday, September 8, 2012

Philosophers are Few and far Between



How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer





People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
-- Soren Kierkegaard





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