[lit-ideas] Re: recipe for happiness
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 08:25:24 +0200
Compare with Marx having spent several decades of his life in England and
never visiting an English factory.
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 7:33 AM, Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Oh sorry I forgot to mention how Wittgenstein's philosophical career had
> nothing whatsoever to do with him him being the hair of one of the largest
> fortunes in Europe. I am sure that Lord Russel would have nothing to do
> with that, and Lord Paul. wouldn;t either. Such philosophical expressions
> as "pointing to, or away" from stuff would surely have been accepted on
> their own merits.
>
>
> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 4:59 AM, Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Well, if I were polled, I would think that metaphysics ended with
>> Schopnehaur's World as will and idea. It's been down hill from there.
>>
>> O.K.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 4:19 AM, Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>>> Like
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 12:33 AM, Walter C. Okshevsky
>>> <wokshevs@xxxxxx>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Well, I don't know about the rest of you, but I myself do not suffer
>>>> suffering
>>>> gladly. (Kant what may.) Even if the venue is Paris.
>>>>
>>>> Insufferably yours, Walter
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
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