To Whom it May Concern

This purpose of this blog is to collect occasional thought-provoking passages from books, blogs, and other sources. The blog title is stolen from the epigraph to John Cage's Silence.

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

On Thinking

From Hannah Arendt's The Life of the Mind,

"If thinking is an activity that is its own end and if the only adequate metaphor for it, drawn from our ordinary experience, is the sensation of being alive, then it follows that all questions concerning the aim or purpose of thinking are as unanswerable as questions about the aim or purpose of life".

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