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Philosophy can be said to consist of three activities: to see the commonsense answer, to get yourself so deeply into the problem that the common sense answer is unbearable, and to get from that situation back to the commonsense answer. Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein		Thursday Jul 31, 2025
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Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry. Phillip Dormer Stanhope

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	Phillip Dormer Stanhope
	(1694-1773) Earl of Chesterfield. Letters to his Son, 1748.

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Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry. Advice is seldom welcome; and those who need it the most, always like it the least. The pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous and the expense damnable. A chapter of accidents. There is a Spanish proverb, which says very justly, 'Tell me whom you live with, and I will tell you who you are'.