| | 'You will feel awe because you are riding one of the horses of the gods. Of all the metaphors for waves, perhaps the best is stallions. While the offshore wind wips the crest of the approaching swells and leaves a halo of white spray behind each wave just before it plunges over, and if they are backlit by the sun, you will not be able not to see the waves as heavenly horses with wild white manes, ghost riders from the sky who disappear as quickly as they come.'
'There are two kinds of philosophy. Some philosophy is simply bullshit. Philosophers are smart, and therefore they can fool people pretty well. They are very clever at disguising bullshit as wisdom. The other kind of philosophy is really wise and wonderful and helpful. Socrates is my favorite example of it. If you don't know that both kinds of philosophy exist, you are not fully educated in philosophy.' |
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