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Single Idea 8095
[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy
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Full Idea
Everything we think must be thought with our entire being, body and soul.
Gist of Idea
We must think with our entire body and soul
Source
Joseph Joubert (Notebooks [1800], 1798)
Book Ref
Joubert,Joseph: 'Notebooks', ed/tr. Auster,Paul [nyrb 2005], p.43
A Reaction
Not just that thinking must be a whole-hearted activity, but that the very contents of our thinking will be better if it arises out of being a physical creature, and not just a disembodied reasoner. Maybe the bowels are not needed to analyse set theory.
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from 'Notebooks'
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8093
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Seek wisdom rather than truth; it is easier
[Joubert]
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8094
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The imagination has made more discoveries than the eye
[Joubert]
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8095
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We must think with our entire body and soul
[Joubert]
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8096
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He gives his body up to pleasure, but not his soul
[Joubert]
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8097
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Virtue is hard if we are scorned; we need support
[Joubert]
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8100
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Where does the bird's idea of a nest come from?
[Joubert]
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8099
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The truths of reason instruct, but they do not illuminate
[Joubert]
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8098
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Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has
[Joubert]
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8101
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To know is to see inside oneself
[Joubert]
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8103
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A thought is as real as a cannon ball
[Joubert]
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8102
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We cannot speak against Christianity without anger, or speak for it without love
[Joubert]
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8104
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What will you think of pleasures when you no longer enjoy them?
[Joubert]
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8105
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We can't exactly conceive virtue without the idea of God
[Joubert]
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8106
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In raising a child we must think of his old age
[Joubert]
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8107
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The love of certainty holds us back in metaphysics
[Joubert]
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