[lit-ideas] Re: Mike and Schopenhauer
- From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 18:44:36 -0700
Carol Kirschenbaum wrote:
All right, I can swallow that. Does Schope recommend an existential
response to all the misery that is life? It's been too long since I read my
10 paragraphs.
‘I shall be told, I suppose, that my philosophy is comfortless--because
I speak the truth; and people prefer to be assured that everything the
Lord has made is good. Go to the priests, then, and leave philosophers
in peace! At any rate, do not ask us to accommodate our doctrines to the
lessons you have been taught. That is what those rascals of sham
philosophers will do for you. Ask them for any doctrine you please, and
you will get it. Your University professors are bound to preach
optimism; and it is an easy and agreeable task to upset their theories.’
Robert Paul
The Reed Institute
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