Friday, 23 October 2009

Avian worship



"I spend too much of my time buying and looking at mere pictures of birds.
"So I forget [Ich vergesse] the real ones out there every day in my garden.
"Sometimes I even mistake [Ich verwechsle] their sounds for the telephone ringing".
[LW in Ireland, 1936]

Here are all the problems of philosophy and the genuine social sciences.
They won't be solved.
To be merely "solved" is not in the nature of such problems.
And here are the problems that their poor relative, psychology, would (stupidly) like to solve.