"Wittgenstein imagined that the philosopher was like a therapist whose task was to put problems finally to rest, and to cure us ofbeing bewitched by them. So we are told to stop, to shut off lines of inquiry, not to find things puzzling nor to seek explanations. This is intellectual suicide."

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Source : Simon Blackburn (1993). “Essays in Quasi-Realism”, p.51, Oxford University Press

Simon Blackburn

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“It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six.”
“Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.”

Source : Philip Roth (1989). “The facts: a novelist's autobiography”, Vintage
“If the Almighty himself played the violin, the credits would still read 'Rubinstein, God, and Piatigorsky', in that order.”
“Maggie threw her head back and laughed. 'So you're going to try...what? Birds of a Feather?' she quested. 'Of course not,' Kat said. 'Everyone knows the French government banned the importation of peacocks in 1987.”
“Will you have the stamina and inspiration necessary to dream up bigger, better, more original sins and wilder, wetter, more interesting problems? Do you realize how demanding it will be to turn yourself into a wildly disciplined, radically curious, fiercely tender, ironically sincere, ingeniously loving, aggressively sensitive, blasphemously reverent, lustfully compassionate master of rowdy bliss?”

Source : Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.62, Frog Books
“Every intelligent person, whether hes an artist or not - a mathematician, a doctor, a scientist - possesses a poetic way of seeing and describing the world.”
“Frame every so-called disaster with these words: In five years, will this matter?”
“How did I make a twelve on a par five hole? It's simple - I missed a four foot putt for an eleven.”

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