Andreas H

[Andreas H @Ahoybach]

Vem är han som slungat sin andes spjutspets genom mörkret,
vem är spjutkastaren?

Det är jag, den genomborrade, som frågar.

[Andreas H @Ahoybach]

@jaimestaples I'm glad to see that you bought this in the end, well deserved - love the painting!

[Andreas H @Ahoybach]

@jordanbpeterson are you familiar with Wittgenstein's "On Certainty"? (He is thinking/writing about system of beliefs).

[Andreas H @Ahoybach]

In order to make a mistake, a man must already judge in conformity with mankind.

[Andreas H @Ahoybach]

Hume's 'mitigated skepticism' turns categorical statements into implicit conditionals.

[Andreas H @Ahoybach]

Dissertation handed in today: A New Perspective on Open-mindedness.

[Andreas H @Ahoybach]

Science is thoroughly human in that it is primarily inspired by a will to master … to order the whole of nature.

[Andreas H @Ahoybach]

No reason can be established without another reason: there we go retreating back to infinity.

[Andreas H @Ahoybach]

Always beware of what a philosopher takes for granted as so obvious as to be not worth arguing for.

[Andreas H @Ahoybach]

At some point one has to pass from explanation to mere description.

[Andreas H @Ahoybach]

Life is too short for academic philosophy.

[Andreas H @Ahoybach]

At the end of reasons comes persuasion.

[Andreas H @Ahoybach]

…it is indifferent to me whether what I have thought has already been thought before me by another.

[Andreas H @Ahoybach]

Whoever goes beyond the measure is guilty of 'hubris', and 'hubris' is the worst thing that can befall a man.

[Andreas H @Ahoybach]

"Most philosophers who set off for the stratosphere never return to earth to enlighten the people they have left behind (...)"

[Andreas H @Ahoybach]

Part 1: I repeat, I repeat with emphasis; all direct persons and men of action are active just because they are stupid and limited.

[Andreas H @Ahoybach]

Part 2: How to explain that? I will tell you!

[Andreas H @Ahoybach]

Part 3: In consequence of their limitation they take immediate and secondary reasons as primary ones…

[Andreas H @Ahoybach]

Part 4: …and in that way persuade themselves more quickly and easily than other people do…

[Andreas H @Ahoybach]

Part 5: …in that they have found an infallible foundation for their activity…