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Favourite philosophers Arthur Schopenhauer, John Locke, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Richard Burthogge, Bertrand Rusell, Ralph Cudworth, Noam Chomsky, Galen Strawson, Raymond Tallis, Bryan Magee
Favourite quotations "It's always night or we wouldn't need light."

- Thelonious Monk

"You may reasonably expect a man to walk a tightrope safely for ten minutes; it would be unreasonable to do so without accident for two hundred years."

- Bertrand Russell

"Enchanted by its rigour, humanity forgets over and again that it is a rigour of chess masters, not of angels."

- Jorge Luis Borges

"...From all which it is evident, that the extent of our knowledge comes not only short of the reality of things, but even of the extent of our own ideas. Though our knowledge be limited to our ideas, and cannot exceed them either in extent or perfection; and though these be very narrow bounds... tied down to the dull and narrow information that is to be received from some few, and not very acute, ways of perception, such as are our senses; yet it would be well with us if our knowledge were but as large as our ideas, and there were not many doubts and inquiries concerning the ideas we have, whereof we are not, nor I believe ever shall be in this world resolved."

- John Locke

"But then if I look out of the window and see men crossing the square, as I just happen to have done, I normally say that I see the men themselves… Yet do I see any more than hats and coats which could conceal automatons? I judge that they are men. And so something which I thought I was seeing with my eyes is in fact grasped solely by the faculty of judgment which is in my mind."

- Rene Descartes

"Submission ends it all..."

- The Stone Roses

"And, that these cogitations of the... soul called sensations, are not knowledge… is evident by experience... For if [sensations] were knowledge...then all men would rest satisfied in the sensible ideas... of them and never inquire any further… as when we see the clear light of the meridian sun, or hear the loud noise of thunder, whereas… one dazzle our eyes, the other deafens our ears, but neither enlighten or inform our understandings."

- Ralph Cudworth

"But, concerning what you think to be the truth of the thing, or the ultimate nature of honey, this is what I ardently desire to know, and what remains still hidden from me..."

- Pierre Gassendi
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