Daydreaming Idly
"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
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Showing posts tagged drinking
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The Philosopher’s Song (to be sung whilst drinking)
Monty Python’s Philosophers Song
Oh Immanuel Kant was a real piss-ant who was very rarely stable,
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar who could drink you under the table,
David Hume could out-consume Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel,
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine who was twice as sloshed as Schlegel.There’s nothing Nietzsche couldn’t teach yer ‘bout the raising of the wrist,
Socrates himself was permanently pissed.John Stewart Mill, of his own free will, on half a pint of shandy was particularly ill,
Plato, they say, could stick it away, half a crate of whisky every day,
Aristotle, Aristotle was a bugger for the bottle, Hobbes was fond of his dram,
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart: “I drink, therefore I am.”Yes, Socrates himself is particularly missed -
A lovely little thinker, but a bugger when he’s pissed.-Yet another reason why I miss my boy. No one else will drunkenly sing this with me :(
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