"It is reality that awakens possibilities, and nothing would be more perverse than to deny it. Even so, it will always be the same possibilities, either in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality over the idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their directions, and he awakens them."
- Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities
"The truth will set you free. But not until it is done with you."
- David Foster Wallace
(maxistentialist)
I likes me some Kant occasionally. Max, your philosophy quotes always make me miss Goucha hells of bad. I know we didn’t...
P.S. My philosophy class that focused on ethics completely changed my life. And I will never be the same because of it....
I wrote this quote into the Philosophy exam we had the other day when I was writing about