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Show Philosopher and Philosophy. According to Life, philosophy is a short cut to knowledge. Being a short cut to knowledge philosophy Is nothing noth-ing nt all, because there is no short cut to knowledge. A philosopher is a man who thinks that if he finds out a certain thing which nobody else has ever found out ho will be able to find out everything ' else without looking. Therefore, he spends his llfo looking for that one certain thing, and thereby overlooks everything else. Accordingly, a por-fect por-fect philosopher knows nothing at all. Happily the world has never yet been burdened with a perfect philosopher. There are, however, a good many imperfect im-perfect philosophers floating around who are Interesting to associate with directly, as they follow philosophy not as a vocation but as au avocation. |