Tags / 4 quotes from 3 sources
#human-life
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
Jokes require living a human life
Jokes are bits of knowledge that can only be acquired through living a life as a member of the species Homo sapiens. The Architect in The Matrix possessed truly God-like omniscience. But even the Architect did not seem to have much of a sense of humor.
Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits
After of the ending of absolute values, a life of tranquillity is the only solution (granted a man has the right temperament for it)
For Tranquility.—But will not our philosophy become thus a tragedy? Will not truth prove the enemy of life, of betterment? A question seems to weigh upon our tongue and yet will not put itself into words: whether one can knowingly remain in the domain of the untruthful? or, if…
If there is no longer any ought morality, wouldn't death be preferable?
For Tranquility.—But will not our philosophy become thus a tragedy? Will not truth prove the enemy of life, of betterment? A question seems to weigh upon our tongue and yet will not put itself into words: whether one can knowingly remain in the domain of the untruthful? or, if…
Nishida Kitarō (stanford Encyclopedia Of Philosophy)
Philosophy
...he defined philosophy as science [gakumon], i.e. unified conceptual knowledge, more specifically the first and universal science that “reflects on the basic concepts of the particular sciences in general and constructs of them one system of knowledge.” Yet “its object of…