Philosophy Bits

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“It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.”

— Mary Wollstonecra...

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“All that is set forth in books, all that seems so terribly vital and significant, is but an iota of that from which it stems and which it is within everyone’s power to tap.”

— Henry Miller, The Boo...

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“It is yet another of Nietzsche’s merits that he joins to his critique of Enlightenment moralities a sense of their failure to address adequately, let alone to answer the question: what sort of person am...

“Is there a substratum on which mathematics rests? Is logic the foundation of mathematics? In my view mathematical logic is simply part of mathematics. Russell’s calculus is not fundamental; it is just another calculus. There is nothing wrong with a science before the foundations are laid.”

- Ludwig Wittgenstein, Lectures: 1932-1935