'Solutions'

 

Just as there are stones we cannot lift without the help of machines so there are philosophical problems whose solution will belong to the machines we build to solve them, not to us; to us the solution will not seem like a solution.

The problem is the problem

 

Is it the world or us that is wrong? Perhaps nothing is wrong at all. 

Aspirations

 

The most we may hope for are moments of near perfection.  

Artificial Emotions

Our machines will live and feel far more than us.

The Tourist

 

Even the greatest, semi-divine, rules of a society are but quaint colloquial conventions to the philosopher.

Will to Power

 

We could say that all life is functionally mad.

Perspectivism

 

All our theories are really illusions and the best one may hope for is to be the least wrong it is possible to be. 

The Perfect

 

Nothing is perfect except a lie (which is how one knows it is a lie).

On Thoughts and Feelings

 

Our reasonings are as biological as our emotions.

The Point

 

Had reality a point we would likely already have reached it by now; hence it probably doesn't.

Epistemology

  

The Truth has always been somewhat overrated.

The metaquestion

 

Philosophy is the questioning of what cannot be questioned.

On reason and logic

 

Reason and logic must have evolved from the unreasonable and the illogical. 

Bedrock

 

In the house of philosophy there is no cellar; the stairs go down ad infinitum.

 

On Faith

 

Be religiously unreligious.

The World as a work of Art

 

The world is a ready-made made by no-one. 

The Aberration

 

The idea that we are an aberration is itself an aberration.

On Truth

 The more Truth one has the less Truth one has.

On Art and Artists

 

Just as an artist ought never be judged by his work, an artwork ought never be judged by the artist who happened to make it.

Philosophy

 

Philosophy: Not having ones cake nor eating it.

The greatest fiction

 

The greatest fiction ever thought up was the idea of the moral universe.

Penguin Metaphysics

 

If mankind has some ultimate goal which he moves through history towards then perhaps penguinkind has a similar ultimate goal. 

On Art

 

The role of art is to help us momentarily forget the absurdity of life.

Egoism

 

Given that I had to be someone it is not all that remarkable that I turned out to be me.

The Answer

 A perfect theory of the world would not change it.

A Truism

 

What does not change is not real.

Little did he know...

 

Little did he know how little did he know.

I act therefore I am

 

The answer to every philosophical question is an action.

Another Truism

 

Nothing that lives is perfect and nothing perfect is real.

Perfection v.s. Change

 

Plato, believing in perfection, saw change as illusion while Nietzsche, believing in change, saw perfection as illusion.

The Divine Experiment

 

Suddenly Science blew up unexpectedly in God's all knowing face.

On The possible and the impossible

 

Fortunately it is not up to the human mind to determine what is possible.

What is Art?

 

Art is the future caught in the act of becoming.

Conservatism

Keeping things the way there were requires the greatest change.