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Ideas for 'Gilles Deleuze', 'Maxims' and 'Beyond internal Foundations to external Virtues'

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1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 2. Wise People

7914	To try to be wise all on one's own is folly [Rochefoucauld]
	Full Idea: To try to be wise all on one's own is sheer folly.
	From: La Rochefoucauld (Maxims [1663], 231)
	A reaction: I agree strongly with this. There are counter-examples, of whom Spinoza may be the greatest, and Nietzsche thought that philosophy was essentially a solitary business, but most of us are not Spinoza or Nietzsche.

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 1. Continental Philosophy

21900	Deleuze relies on Spinoza (immanence), Bergson (duration), and difference (Nietzsche) [May]
	Full Idea: The three tripods on which the philosophy of Deleuze stands are immanence (Spinoza), duration (Bergson), and the affirmation of difference (Nietzsche).
	From: Todd May (Gilles Deleuze [2006], 2.12)
	A reaction: [Just to begin sketching how continental philosophy sees its tradition].