Full Idea
We are trying to climb outside of our own minds, an effort that some would regard as insane and that I regard as philosophically fundamental.
Gist of Idea
It seems mad, but the aim of philosophy is to climb outside of our own minds
Source
Thomas Nagel (The View from Nowhere [1986], Intro)
Book Reference
Nagel,Thomas: 'The View from Nowhere' [OUP 1989], p.11
A Reaction
It is not only philosophers who do this. It is an essential feature of the mind, and is inherent in the concept of truth.