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“[I]t is ambition enough to be employed as an under-labourer in clearing the ground a little,
and removing some of the rubbish that lies in the way to knowledge.” —John Locke, 1689

“[P]hilosophy can no more show a man what he should attach importance to
than geometry can show a man where he should stand.” —Peter Winch, 1968

R. M. Hare (1919-2002) on Philosophical Excitement

For the true philosopher the most exciting thing in the world—perhaps the only exciting thing—is to become really clear about some important question.

(R. M. Hare, "Medical Ethics: Can the Moral Philosopher Help?" chap. 1 in his Essays on Bioethics [Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993], 1-14, at 2 [essay first published in 1977])

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