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We Have Questions
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Wolves and women are similar in nature, they are curious about knowledge and possess great strength and endurance. They are deeply intuitive and care intensely about their little ones, their partner, their group…And yet the two species were both persecuted….
~ Clarissa Pinkola Estès
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Someone wonders why they study philosophy, that is, a discipline that apparently has no practical use…
Philosophy is a tool to understand what’s around us — to understand what’ll be inside us is probably more effective than literature –.
But we really understand what’s around us if we don’t take for granted the truths that someone else has thought to set up for us.
It means not being afraid of new ideas. It means not stopping for appearances. It means to be able to say no to those who want to impose their way of thinking and seeing the world. That is to those who would think for us.
~ Gianrico Carofiglio
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Don’t leave me alone among people full of certainties. Those people are terrible.
I think I’ve understood one thing, that the stories are always bigger than us, they happened to us and we unconsciously were the protagonists, but the real protagonist of the story we’ve lived is not us, it’s the story we lived.
If man is able to still nurture illusions, that man is still a free man.
Philosophy seems to concern only the truth, but perhaps says nothing but fantasies, and literature seems to concern only fantasies but perhaps says the truth.
~ Antonio Tabucci
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We all nurture illusions but I don’t think that makes us free. It’s true that we are free to believe anything we please, but does that mean we’re free? The worst illusion is probably that we have none. I do think it’s important to doubt and look again. Questioning is more important than knowing.
Stupidity can easily take the form of dead certainty, and we’re seeing a lot of that right now. If enough people can stop and admit they were wrong maybe our world won’t collapse, but it’s touch and go at the moment. There’s a rash of dead certainty of the worst…
