The business of philosophy is to teach man to live in uncertainty—man who is supremely afraid of uncertainty, and who is forever hiding himself behind this or the other dogma.
More briefly, the business of philosophy is not to reassure people, but to upset them…
The task of a writer [is] to go forward and share his impressions with his reader. In spite of everything to the contrary, he is not obliged to prove anything.
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