"Contemporary philosophy illustrates Hegel's dictum that philosophy is its own time apprehended in thought, for in our age philosophy yields to the objectifying technical impulse and loses its ancient task of pursuing the Socratic ideal of the wisdom of the examined life."

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Source : "Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge". Book by Donald Phillip Verene, 1997.

Donald Phillip Verene

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“You jump right over anything in the past, and you don't analyze problems.”
“I never wanted to be the annoying kid on set.”

Source : "Game Of Thrones Q&A: Thomas Brodie-Sangster Talks Jojen Reed". Interview with Jolie Lash, www.accesshollywood.com. May 1, 2013.
“Zaveck is a tough guy. He has never been knocked down and I love putting people to sleep. Knowing that he has never been knocked down is a true test for me”
“We enter our studies, and enjoy a society which we alone can bring together. We raise no jealousy by conversing with one in preference to another; we give no offence to the most illustrious by questioning him as long as we will, and leaving him as abruptly. Diversity of opinion raises no tumult in our presence: each interlocutor stands before us, speaks or is silent, and we adjourn or decide the business at our leisure.”
“Religion may become a fashion as well as anything else; and, when it does become so, it has as little to do, in those who thus hold it, with the heart and the character as any other fashion.”
“I think a reason that a lot of people feel politically paralysed is that it used to be clear how power was organised. But those who have their hands on the levers of popular culture today have great power - and it isn't even clear who they are.”
“Actually ideas are everywhere. It's the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just the right words, that can and usually does get to be labor.”
“The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.”

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