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| 23888 | Knowledge is beyond question, as an unavoidable component of thinking |
| Full Idea: The speaker refuses to pose the question of knowledge, since knowledge is a given that is mixed with thought, and that no thinking being can get away from. | |||
| From: Simone Weil (Philosophy [1941], p.42) | |||
| A reaction: On the whole I favour belief-first, but I take the primary purpose of minds to be navigation, and that needs facts, not hopeful beliefs. Weil's thought pushes me a bit towards the knowledge first view. |
| 23887 | Art (like philosophy) establishes a relation between world and self, and between oneself and others |
| Full Idea: Isn't true art a method for establishing a certain relation between the world and the self, and between oneself and others, and isn't that the equivalent of philosophy? | |||
| From: Simone Weil (Philosophy [1941], p.38) | |||
| A reaction: I hope the definition of 'true' art doesn't have to conform to achieving this relation. I suppose each good work of art shows you a distinctive way of relating to the world. An interesting thought (as so often with this thinker). |