If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in i… — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quote #112

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What does it mean?: This philosophy lacks sanity. It suggests the ideas are irrational or flawed.
In plain terms: This philosophy is not sane. The ideas seem irrational.
What can you take from it?: Question the sanity of ideas.

Philosophy can be abstract without being mad.

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