Socrates said that to say "I do not know", one needs to KNOW of a thing. Deleuze, the great French philosopher, studied philosophy, wrote many books and towards the end of his life wrote a book "What is Philosophy?" and said one could only speculate what it really meant. To me, this is the beauty of knowledge! To be able to be an idiot! The questioning of a further quest. A great philosopher of science Karl Popper wrote in his book "Unended Quest", that to understand life one has to raise doubt. 17th Century French philosopher and physicist Descartes said "Cogito ergo sum" i.e. I think, therefore I am.
To think is consciousness.. is it not to become an idiot ?
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