Philosophical progress is invisible because it is incorporated into our points of view. What was tortuously secured by complex argument becomes widely shared intuition, so obvious that we forget its p...
Mathematicians prove all sorts of truths about numbers, truths that often assert the existence of certain numbers (for example, given two rational numbers, there exists a rational number between them)...
Like mathematics and music and cosmology and philosophy, poetry, too, can infinitize us, granting us what immortality there is to be had in this mortal life. And all those who vibrate in harmony to la...
Jewish Warsaw, which was roughly a third of Warsaw proper, was a city of rabbis and swindlers, capitalists and poets; but, most of all, it was a city of talkers. There were so many ideas in the air yo...
It’s a tiresome proposition, having to take up the work of the Enlightenment all over again, but it’s happened on your watch.
2. The Ontological Argument Nothing greater than God can be conceived (this is stipulated as part of the definition of God). It is greater to exist than not to exist. If we conceive of God as not exis...
If you don’t exert yourself, or if your exertions don’t amount to much of anything, then you might as well not have bothered to have shown up for your existence at all.
For Jascha, artistic creation was the most private activity in the world: the soul's sacred and solitary communion with itself. (p. 244)
Answers? Forget answers. The spectacle is all in the questions.
Inside out, with all the Sturm und
There's no reason. Mazel, Maurice. Only mazel. (p. 343)