Evenings of Despair

Philosophy and other frustrating things.

[eveningsofdespair]

532. So when Moore sat in front of a tree and said "I know that that's a tree", he was simply stating the truth about his state at the time.

[I do philosophy now like an old woman who is always mislaying something and having to look for it again: now her spectacles, now her keys.]

-Ludwig Wittgenstein, On Certainty

[eveningsofdespair]

Failing HARD.

[davescheidt]

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Deep within every human being there still lives the anxiety over the possibility of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the millions and millions in this enormous household. One keeps this anxiety at a distance by looking at the many round about who are related to him as kin and friends, but the anxiety is still there, nevertheless, and one hardly dares think of how he would feel if all this were taken away.

-Søren Kierkegaard

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[eveningsofdespair]

I'm currently re-reading the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals and he's taking me on a similar arduous path. Why must you hurt me so, Kant?

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