![Maybe philosophical problems are hard not because they are divine or irreducible or meaningless or workaday science, but because the mind of Homo sapiens lacks the cognitive equipment to solve them. We are organisms, not angels... Our minds evolved... to solve problems, [not]... to answer any question we are capable of asking.](/assets/img/quote-photos/maybe-philosophical-problems-are-hard-not-because-they-are-divine-or-irreducible.jpg)
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World history is a court of judgment. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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There is no intercessor, angel, mediator, between man and God; for man can speak and God hear, each for himself. He requires no advocates to plead for men. Theodore Parker
angel men answers
I answer, because I live among men and not among angels. Thaddeus Stevens
angel men may
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To deserve this fate what have I ever done?... All I want is just a little piece of mind but the angels won't have it. Melissa Etheridge
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There is an angel imprisoned in it and I must set it free. Michelangelo
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For poetry exists to break through to below the level of reason where the angels and monsters that the amenities keep in the cellar may come out to dance, to rove and roar, growling and singing, to bring life back to the enclosed rooms where too often we are only 'living and partly living. May Sarton
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Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections. Matthew Simpson
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Where I am today, is where my mind and will put me, where I am tomorrow is where my mind will put me. Billy Blanks
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If your mind is scattered, it is quite powerless. Dalai Lama
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