Immanuel Kant was a real pissant
Who was very rarely stable
Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar
Who could think you under the table
David Hume could out consume
Schopenhauer and Hegel
And Wittgenstein was a beery swine
Who was just as schloshed as Schlegel
There's nothing Nietzsche couldn't teach ya
'Bout the raising of the wrist
Socrates, himself, was permanently pissed
John Stuart 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 whiskey 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
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Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.
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Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.
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A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.
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If there were a verb meaning 'to believe falsely,' it would not have any significant first person, present indicative.
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In order to be able to set a limit to thought, we should have to find both sides of the limit thinkable (i.e. we should have to be able to think what cannot be thought).
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If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.
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The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
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For a large class of cases -- though not for all -- in which we employ the word meaning it can be defined thus: the meaning of a word is its use in the language.
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If you do know that here is one hand, we'll grant you all the rest.
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If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
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Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
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Man has to awaken to wonder -- and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.
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Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.
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You learned the concept 'pain' when you learned language.
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The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy.
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I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
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One must travel light
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Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not me...
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Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.
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A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
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If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
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