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Philosophy! empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
-Iris Murdoch
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Philosophy! Empty Thinking By Ignorant Conceited Men

Iris Murdoch
Philosophy! empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!
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If anyone would like to acquire humility, i can, i think, tell him the first step. the first step is to realize that one is proud. and a biggish step, too. at least, nothing whatever can be done before it. if you think you are not conceited, it means that you are very conceited indeed.
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Now look at me! take a good look! i was born and i knew i was alive and i knew what i wanted. what do you think is alive in me? why do you think i'm alive? because i have a stomach and eat and digest the food? because i breathe and work and produce more food to digest? or because i know what i want, and that something which knows how to want—isn't that life itself? and who—in this damned universe—who can tell me why i should live for anything but for that which i want?
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