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Ideas for 'On the Question of Absolute Undecidability', 'Notebooks' and 'The Journals of Kierkegaard'

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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 1. Philosophy

8095	We must think with our entire body and soul [Joubert]
	Full Idea: Everything we think must be thought with our entire being, body and soul.
	From: Joseph Joubert (Notebooks [1800], 1798)
	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.

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 2. Invocation to Philosophy

16000	Fixed ideas should be tackled aggressively [Kierkegaard]
	Full Idea: Fixed ideas are like a cramp in your foot: the best remedy is to stomp on them.
	From: Søren Kierkegaard (The Journals of Kierkegaard [1850], JP-III, 635)
	A reaction: Sound philosophical advice at any time. [SY] Does this apply in seminars, as well as in private meditation? [PG]