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> It’s also why a philosopher with something meaningful to say usually has more in common with children and animals than with his colleaguespic.twitter.com/K2pCkoKQkH

> thus, to actually discover what he knows of it, is to ask the most terrifying question for all academic philosophers; how conscious is this man?pic.twitter.com/xm6rPGeb1S

> A great thinker does not hammer truth to the wall of the mind with the nails of a system, because he knows in doing so the truth will diepic.twitter.com/7yjCnHfetg

> This is why many students who take philosophy degrees have the distinct feeling that they’ve got on the wrong train. They expect to be dealing with the towering mysteries of human existence. ...... What they find instead is a cross between a librarian and an accountantpic.twitter.com/VCJJTfvGnA

> People don’t first reason their way into their beliefs; they seek beliefs and attitudes which correspond to their felt inner reality, their way of living and their life-in-the-world, then find reasons to accept and defend those beliefs and attitudespic.twitter.com/Xc0uOunsPj

> Although he may reason himself to the limit of the known, he cannot cross over. To do so does not require a different kind of knowledge, but a different kind of personpic.twitter.com/njIivnDWVM

> Ego can hardly be said to experience at all, instantly transporting whatever happens into the modal warehouse of the self, where it is stored, evaluated and used to get a better job, lord it over newcomers, or gas on about what it knows or what has happened to it.pic.twitter.com/Ymmczj1lbf

> A literal description of love betrays love in the same way that a photograph of a sunset makes it look trivial and hollow > The more facts (e.g. ‘life hacks’) I acquire about living, the better able I am to livepic.twitter.com/XzNLn3x9cf