Wednesday, January 16
- a philosopher, a men who dreams of fewer things than there are on heaven and earth.
- Bradley defined philosophy as the finding of bad reason for what one believes by instinct. As if one believed anything by instinct! One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons--that's philosophy.
Exposing what is mortal and unsure to all that fortune,
death and danger dare,
even for an eggshell.
But I dont want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want good ness. I want sin. In fact, I am claiming the right to be unhappy. Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat; the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind. I claim them all.
- Bradley defined philosophy as the finding of bad reason for what one believes by instinct. As if one believed anything by instinct! One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons--that's philosophy.
Exposing what is mortal and unsure to all that fortune,
death and danger dare,
even for an eggshell.
But I dont want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want good ness. I want sin. In fact, I am claiming the right to be unhappy. Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat; the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind. I claim them all.
Saturday, January 12
A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.
Tuesday, January 8
This video from Abteen Bagheri is killing me.
