6 thoughts on “Ask the philosophers: the 11 greatest philosophical quotations”

1. The Marchioness of W under B

   Your Polyglot Grace

   Quis custodiet ipsos custodes (who keeps an eye on the Republicans)

   What an arrogant Twit Camus was – why assume that the “Intelligent” have any greater wisdom or understanding …. or rightness … than ordinary humble Folk, who don’t go driving their cars with reckless & fatal consequences

   Harrumph

   Harrumph

   and again I say

   Harrumph

   Better to live on one’s knees, than to die spreading mayhem in one’s car

   Yr obedt servant etc

   GE

   PS My favourite philiosphical quote

   “To every injustice, there is justice”

   Extracted from Bertrand Russell as the most ancient Greek Philosophical fragment

   I’d like to knowwhta it means, but I suspect it’s got something to do with Prime Minister’s (& their Wives) behaving badly and them getting their come-uppance

   Es macht man denkenn, nee [It makes yuh fink, uhhh]
   Das ist es, doch [This is it, init]

2. It means Heraclitus was right.

   Cars are the devil’s work, but so are stupid people or, as we call them, livestock.

3. Dear R-C

   Why don’t you think you are not to be included amongst the livestock (A Giant Tree Octopus would call them “Prey”)

   Yours ever

   G E

4. Not that I am an expert on Camus since I’ve only read ‘The Outsider’, ‘The Fall’ and ‘The Myth of Sisyphus’, but I seriously doubt that he would have said anything of the sort.

   Camus opposed oppression and totalitarianism of any kind, but did so from a clearly emotional basis. He fought against the abusive use of power because he felt it to be wrong. Because each man has his own morality only of his likes and dislikes.

   What this means is that he did not attempt to justify his moral stand-point rationally, and in fact much of Camus is non-rational, standing out as creative and lyrical rather than rational inquiries.

   In these lights it is difficult to understand what a statement could mean coming from the mouth of such a man. Surely he’d have been the first to question who decides which of us is intelligent and which of us isn’t.

   Not to say that the statement is necessarily wrong, or Camus necessarily right, but I seriously doubt that he would have said anything of the sort.

5. You’re right; you’re not an expert on Camus. Nor am I, but I am aware that he said all kinds of things which sound like nonsequiters out of context, for example:
   Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

6. And
   Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference.

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