Sometimes one is led to think that transcendental joking is philosophy. Don't frown! A passing thought. May be wrong. But definitely there is no dearth of jokes among the philosophers.
Just read these quotes and see the natural humour !
"What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence"
-- Ludwig Wittgenstein
"After all, Mr. Wittgenstein manages to say a good deal about what cannot be said."
-- Bertrand Russell
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Or again,
How poignant sometimes the ordinary words, when coming through unique persons !
Am thinking on these words -
"How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world." - Kafka.
The mind is doing a parallel reading of 'the differentiation of Drg and Drsya' - Being aware of the Difference of the Seeing One from the Seen things - of Sri AdiSankara.
Srirangam Mohanarangan
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