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“Without the communist oppression, I am absolutely sure I would now be a local stupid professor of philosophy in Ljubljana.”

Philosophy Stupid Locals Oppression Communist Professors

Author:Slavoj Žižek

“When people begin to philosophize they seem to think it necessary to make themselves artificially stupid.”

People Thinking Philosophy Seems Stupid Stupidity

Book:The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

Source: The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell

“The philosopher ... subjects experience to his critical judgment, and this contains a value judgment namely, that freedom from toil is preferable to toil, and an intelligent life is preferable to a stupid life. It so happened that philosophy was born with these values. Scientific thought had to break this union of value judgment and analysis, for it became increasingly clear that the philosophic values did not guide the organisation of society.”

Source: One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society

“If you’re too stupid to understand that a philosophy that favors a federally structured republic, with numerous restraints on the scope and power of government to interfere with individual rights or the free market, is a lot different from an ethnic-nationalist, atheistic, and socialist program of genocide and international aggression, you should use this rule of thumb: If someone isn’t advocating the murder of millions of people in gas chambers and a global Reich for the White Man you shouldn’t assume he’s a Nazi and you should know it’s pretty damn evil to call him one.”

“I think everything in your life's your own damn fault and that's my simple philosophy in that, and I think you're broke because you want to be just like you're fat because you want to be or stupid because you want to be or unemployed, it must be because you want to be. Otherwise, it'd be different.”

Thinking Want Different Philosophy Simple Stupid Like You Faults Fats Broke Damn Unemployed

Author:Larry Winget

“Doing something stupid once is just plain stupid. Doing something stupid twice is a philosophy.”

Philosophy Stupid

Author:Dan O'Neill