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I have to apologize for my immediate lack of pictures, the cable internet for my desktop has gone kaput for the moment and so I can't load any pictures. Please bear with me for a moment until I figure it out.

This space also serves as a memory box for me, so that I can keep and catalogue a list of things I have considered or wish to consider, so that at a later point in time I can look back and then further reconsider what I have already considered. Make sense?

Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite concious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know.
--Socrates

Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures. --Sébastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort

Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself. --H. L. Mencken

How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do. --Arthur Schopenhauer

Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits. --William James

Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. --Henry B. Adams

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men. --Bertrand Russell

I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card. --Charles Baudelaire

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil- not the strength to choose between the two.
--John Cheever

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