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14857 | The highest wisdom has the guise of simplicity [Nietzsche] |
Full Idea: Truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity. | |
From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Human, All Too Human [1878], 609) |
6928 | Only that which can be an object of religion is an object of philosophy [Feuerbach] |
Full Idea: Only that which can be an object of religion is an object of philosophy. | |
From: Ludwig Feuerbach (Principles of Philosophy of the Future [1843], §35) | |
A reaction: The temple of Pythagoras at Solon sounds like an embodiment of this idea. The obvious candidate would be truth, to which philosophers must show almost religious respect. Some what motivates the philosophy of a minimalist (Idea 3750)? |
14854 | Deep thinkers know that they are always wrong [Nietzsche] |
Full Idea: Whoever thinks more deeply knows that he is always wrong, whatever his acts and judgments. | |
From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Human, All Too Human [1878], 518) |
14833 | Comedy is a transition from fear to exuberance [Nietzsche] |
Full Idea: The transition from momentary fear to short-lived exuberance is called the 'comic'. | |
From: Friedrich Nietzsche (Human, All Too Human [1878], 169) |
6918 | Philosophy should not focus on names, but on the determined nature of things [Feuerbach] |
Full Idea: Philosophy need not care about the conceptions that common usage or misuse attaches to a name; philosophy, however, has to bind itself to the determined nature of things, whose signs are names. | |
From: Ludwig Feuerbach (Principles of Philosophy of the Future [1843], §23) | |
A reaction: I like this attempt to nip ordinary language philosophy in the bud. Indeed I like the notion of philosophy binding itself to the 'determined nature of things' (which sound like essences to me), rather than to their names or descriptions. |
6904 | Modern philosophy begins with Descartes' abstraction from sensation and matter [Feuerbach] |
Full Idea: The beginning of Descartes' philosophy, namely, the abstraction from sensation and matter, is the beginning of modern speculative philosophy. | |
From: Ludwig Feuerbach (Principles of Philosophy of the Future [1843], §10) | |
A reaction: In Britain it might be said that modern philosophy begins with a rebellion against Descartes' move. Feuerbach is charting the movement towards idealism. |
6931 | Empiricism is right about ideas, but forgets man himself as one of our objects [Feuerbach] |
Full Idea: Empiricism rightly derives the origin of our ideas from the senses; only it forgets that the most important and essential object of man is man himself. | |
From: Ludwig Feuerbach (Principles of Philosophy of the Future [1843], §41) | |
A reaction: This seems to nicely pinpoint the objection of most 'continental' philosophy to British empiricism and analytic philosophy. It seems to point towards Husserl's phenomenology as the next step. It is true that empiricists divided person from world. |