"For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief." -Ecclesiastes 1:18
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Comedian Steve Martin put it this way: " I studied just enough philosophy to screw me up for the rest of my life!" Having been delving into philosophy a bit of late, I totally get what he means. It could be unexamined life is actually much more fun than thoroughly examined one!
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The examined life is however easier to cope with.
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For some reason, the people that rarely ask the kinds of questions that philosophers regularly ask seem to smile more. Then again my dog seems to be pretty stoked like, all the time.
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I studied science economics art and history. I only studied philosophy to falsify it. It’s bad for you. It’s wishful thinking by those who lack agency, secular theology, sophistry, or its pseudoscience. Religion makes you comfortable, philosophy uncomfortable, science empowering.
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Nonsense, picking up a fire poker and waving it in the face of others makes me happy. Greetings, Ludwig
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But they are more able to argue away their misery as a philosophical irrelevance!
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The unexamined life is ...one that is happier?
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The drive to examine one's life, to apply skepticism to that which one took for granted, is rooted in unhappiness.
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Kärleken till visdom är större än lycka och olycka!
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