Tuesday, February 06, 2007

So Tired

I stayed up too late last night... or got up too early this morning. I miss my lazy mornings of awaking at 8 and 8:30, answering e-mail and doing virtual things from the prone position until 10:00-something. How will I ever return my sorry butt to the world of the truly-working?!

I must get to bed. Maybe that will help... or at least help ease the split screen nature of things.

A few quotes (the 11 most important philosophical questions?!):
1. “The unexamined life is not worth living”
    – Socrates (470-399 BCE)
2. “Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily”
    – William of Ockham (1285 - 1349?)
3. “The life of man [is] solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
    – Thomas Hobbes (1588 – 1679)
4. “I think therefore I am”
    – René Descartes (1596 – 1650)
5. “To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi).” Or, “If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?”
    – Bishop George Berkeley (1685 – 1753)
6. “We live in the best of all possible worlds.”
    – Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646 – 1716)
7. “The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk.”
    – G.W.F. Hegel (1770 – 1831)
8. “Who is also aware of the tremendous risk involved in faith – when he nevertheless makes the leap of faith – this [is] subjectivity … at its height.”
    – Søren Kierkegaard (1813 – 1855)
9. “God is dead.”
    – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 – 1900)
10. “There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide.”
    – Albert Camus (1913 – 1960)
11. “One cannot step twice in the same river.”
    – Heraclitus (ca. 540 – ca. 480 BCE)

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