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• Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

  Speaker: JOSH BILLINGS
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  Posted: 24 May 2009 at 12:28 PM
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• You do not take up philosophy the way you enter the seminary, with a credo as your sword and a single path as your destiny. Should you study Plato. Epicurus, Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, Hegel or even Husserl? Esthetics, politics, morality, epistemology, metaphysics? Should you devote your time to teaching, to producing a body of work, to research, to Culture? It makes no difference. The only thing that matters is your intention: are you elevating thought and contributing to the common good, or rather joining the ranks in a field of study whose only purpose is its own perpetuation, and only function the self-reproduction of a sterile elite – for this turns the university into a sect.

  Speaker: Muriel Barbery
  Source: the Elegance of the Hedgehog
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  Posted: 27 Jun 2009 at 1:02 PM
  Posted By: Puck
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