How to Philosophise

Often the philosopher excels at explaining what he does not know, and demanding that the explanation be taken seriously as if he did in fact know it, which later itself actually becomes something worth knowing. What a feat.

On Originality

It is hard to claim an original thought given the horizon of knowable precedents, even when confined to merely examining how one has come to be. But perhaps it is the very synthesis of these experiences, unceasingly composing a state of mind so phenomenologically unique, that enables everyone to say something for which they each have good reason to call their own. Like this.