"No sick man's monstrous dream can be so wild that some philosopher won't say it's true."
Info & reflection: A critique of philosophy from the inside, not the outside. It doesn't say philosophy is useless; it says it is so flexible it can justify any claim, however absurd. A healthy reminder against the pull of a well-built argument for its own sake: the logical coherence of a claim isn't enough to make it true, only to make it defensible.
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- The more we justify our beliefs, the more narrow-minded we become. — Lin Yutang: narrow-mindedness comes before the rationalising that dresses it up as logic.