Showing posts with label Philosophy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Philosophy. Show all posts

Sunday, December 4, 2022

John Gray | "Feline Philosophy: Cats and the meaning of life"

 «Οι άνθρωποι είναι άνθρωποι και οι γάτες είναι γάτες. Η διαφορά έγκειται στο ότι ενώ οι γάτες δεν έχουν τίποτα να μάθουν από εμάς, εμείς μπορούμε να μάθουμε από αυτές πώς να ελαφρύνουμε το φορτίο που βαραίνει την ανθρώπινη φύση».

«Οι γάτες μάς δείχνουν ότι η αναζήτηση νοήματος, όπως το κυνήγι της ευτυχίας, είναι περισπασμός. Το νόημα της ζωής είναι ένα άγγιγμα, μια μυρωδιά, που έρχεται τυχαία και φεύγει προτού το καταλάβουμε».

 via Lifo

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Black cat analogy


Philosophy is like being in a dark room and looking for a black cat.

Metaphysics is like being in a dark room and looking for a black cat that isn't there.

Theology is like being in a dark room and looking for a black cat that isn't there, and shouting "I found it!"

Science is like being in a dark room and looking for a switch. The light will reveal a cat... if there is one.

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Jaques Derrida | Plato's Pharmacy

"Logos, a living, animate creature, is thus also an organism that has been engendered. An organism: a different body proper, with a center and extremities, joints, a head, and feet. In order to be "proper", a written discourse ought to submit to the laws of life just as a living discourse does. Logographical necessity [...] ought to be analogous to the biological, or rather zoological, necessity [...] Otherwise obviously it would have neither head nor tail."