Philosophy 101 - The Chair That Doesn’t Exist

An eccentric philosophy professor gave a one question final exam after a semester dealing with a broad array of topics. The class was already seated and ready to go when the professor picked up his chair, plopped it on his desk and wrote on the board: “Using everything we have learned this semester, prove that this chair does not exist.” Fingers flew, erasers erased, notebooks were filled in furious fashion. Some students wrote over 30 pages in one hour attempting to refute the existence of the chair. One member of the class however, was up and finished in less than a minute. Weeks later when the grades were posted, the rest of the group wondered how he could have gotten an A when he had barely written anything at all. His answer consisted of two words: “What chair?” How to get good grades in  College QuotaBills Reclimbing chair - Archie Bunker Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy. - Thomas Hobbes Paddy O Furniture: Irish lawn chairs - Daffynitions joe-ks.com Death is philosophy's only problem. - Albert Camus WYMI - the all-philosophy radio station. - Mike Dugan Easy Chair: The hardest one to find empty. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com Theoretical physics is actually philosophy. - Max Born We are never to judge a philosophy by its abuse. - Augustine Our philosophy is that we care about people first. - Mark Zuckerberg One who sits between two chairs may easily fall down. - Romanian and Russian Proverb Skepticism is the first step on the road to philosophy. - Denis Diderot I am not into working out. My philosophy: no pain, no pain. - Carol Leifer Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. - Ludwig van Beethoven If you stand up and be counted, someone will take your seat. - Unknown We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. - Martin L. Gross Tragedy: a busload of lawyers going over a cliff with an empty seat. - Unknown Academe: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught - Daffynitions joe-ks.com You should not paint the chair, but only what someone has felt about it. - Edvard Munch A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world. - Louis Pasteur Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious. - Ruth Reichl Tupac was one of the biggest thugs I know - and he always wore his seat belt. - Ice Cube Committee work is like a soft chair - easy to get into but hard to get out of. - Kenneth J Shively Philosophy may teach us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of our neighbors. - Oscar Wilde "I have done my best." That is about all the philosophy of living one needs. - Lin Yutang At the heart of the Irish economy has always been the philosophy of tax competitiveness. - Bono My uncle's dying wish was to have me sitting in his lap; he was in the electric chair. - Rodney Dangerfield The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that's always been my philosophy. - Peter Lynch University: 1. A college with a stadium seating more than sixty thousand; 2. A mental institution. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com Worry is like a rocking chair. It will give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere. - Unknown I must study politics and war that my sons may have the liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. - John Adams Chair pose is a defiance of spirit, showing how high you can reach even when you're forced down. - Unknown I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison. - WC Fields America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. - Arnold Toynbee A university is an institution that has two thousand seats in the classrooms and eighty thousand in the stadium. - Unknown Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewellery. - John Lennon I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. - Thomas Jefferson The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. - Epictetus Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. - Winston Churchill I remain convinced that obstinate addiction to ordinary language in our private thoughts is one of the main obstacles to progress in philosophy. - Bertrand Russell The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. 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06-Jul-2022