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Philosophy 1: Wittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as sloshed as Schlegel

This could have saved about a million words of doctoral dissertations.

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"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."- Dorothy Parker on "Atlas Shrugged"

Words that should still be heeded today.
 
MissThundercat said:
Related to Ayn Rand: Didn't she come from a well-off family?

I find most Capital L libertarians do.
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Yeah, she was well off enough to go to the best schools. She was mostly p-ssed off about The Revolution because her family lost their status (even though the only reason she was permitted to go to university was the revolution, oopsie). One reason she was so able to leech off the rich by telling them what they wanted to hear was she came from their world.

Most of our far right emigres are from rich families that lost their goodies, c.f. Cubans in FL.
 
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“You and me are real people, operating in a real world. We are not figments of each other’s imagination. I am the architect of my own self, my own character and destiny. It is no use whingeing about what I might have been, I am the things I have done and nothing more. We are all free, completely free. We can each do any damn thing we want. Which is more than most of us dare to imagine.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

And I'm going into clinical work. I'm going to print that, frame it, and hang it proudly in my office.
 
MissThundercat said:
“You and me are real people, operating in a real world. We are not figments of each other’s imagination. I am the architect of my own self, my own character and destiny. It is no use whingeing about what I might have been, I am the things I have done and nothing more. We are all free, completely free. We can each do any damn thing we want. Which is more than most of us dare to imagine.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

And I'm going into clinical work. I'm going to print that, frame it, and hang it proudly in my office.
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Words to live by. The Left could use a swift Existentialist kick in the drawers. (The Right could use de Maistre's rope around the neck.)
 
Kepler said:
Words to live by. The Left could use a swift Existentialist kick in the drawers. (The Right could use de Maistre's rope around the neck.)
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Looking at my life, I closely align with Existentialism. Where I am in my life isn't the gift Sky Daddy left for me under the tree Christmas morning.
 
Kepler said:
Have you read The Myth of Sisyphus?

Highly recommend.
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Checking out Camus, I love this:

"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there's something stronger, something better, pushing right back."- Albert Camus
 
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