March 18th, Ethics

"I'll tell you what really goes well with popcorn, crack! Sprinkle it right over the top."

"I generally don't care about laws" ...(if they don't have a good reason)

"If you're going to just randomly thwart me then I won't pay attention"

History of Modern Philosophy 2009


"Hobbes is like, 'ooh, religion like a bonsai tree...yeah, I can deal with that." (Hobbes view of the postmodern idea of religion.)


(Wyma, muttering under his breath.) "And I put down the card, why did I put down the card?" ("Card," here refers to his "cards of power," first posted November 20th 2002.)


"Enough with Spinoza, it's now time to turn to someone a little less high on dope...John Locke."

My deepest apologizes to all of you who have been waiting for new posts. The file where all the quotes reside went missing for a while, and then I came down with the "Whitworth bug" (all readers who are currently going to Whitworth will know of what I speak.) All this to say, there are a lot of both old and new quotes, so I'll be double posting for a bit. Again, I'm sorry, and, fingers crossed, there should be no more delays.



History of Modern Philosophy 2009


"Metaphysicional...that was not even right...metaphysical."


(Wyma writes on the whiteboard, talks, pauses and stares at what could best be described as a squiggle.) "That's an 'and,' it just didn't come out right at all."


"Everything was going all right, but it's a French name. (After misspelling Malebranche.)