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PostSubject: 'The Theory of Truth' by Robinson Jeffers 'The Theory of Truth' by Robinson Jeffers EmptyMon Sep 10, 2012 6:29 pm

Quote :
Why does insanity always twist the great answers?
Because only
tormented persons want truth.
Man is an animal like other animals, wants food and success and
women, not truth. Only if the mind
Tortured by some interior tension has despaired of happiness:
then it hates its life-cage and seeks further,
And finds, if it is powerful enough. But instantly the private
agony that made the search
Muddles the finding.
Here was a man who envied the chiefs of
the provinces of China their power and pride,
And envied Confucius his fame for wisdom. Tortured by hardly
conscious envy he hunted the truth of things,
Caught it, and stained it through with his private impurity. He
praised inaction, silence, vacancy: why?
Because the princes and officers were full of business, and wise
Confucius of words.
Is this the fate of all philosophical minds?

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PostSubject: Re: 'The Theory of Truth' by Robinson Jeffers 'The Theory of Truth' by Robinson Jeffers EmptyMon Sep 10, 2012 7:25 pm

Yes.

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PostSubject: Re: 'The Theory of Truth' by Robinson Jeffers 'The Theory of Truth' by Robinson Jeffers EmptySat Sep 01, 2018 2:36 pm

This is what happens when philosophy isn't rooted in practice but drifts off into fantasy, "intellectual masturbation"

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