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 Rock Music: Sung in a rocking chair - Daffynitions joe-ks.com 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 Easy Chair: The hardest one to find empty. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com 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 America is so advanced that even the chairs are electric. - Doug Hamwell 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 We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. - Martin L. Gross The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart. - William Hazlitt Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. - Ambrose Bierce You should not paint the chair, but only what someone has felt about it. - Edvard Munch It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly. - Isaac Asimov 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 Advanced old age is when you sit in a rocking chair and can't get it going. - Eliakim Katz 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 There's no one way to dance. And that's kind of my philosophy about everything. - Ellen Degeneres It isn't so much what's on the table that matters, as what's on the chairs. - W S Gilbert 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 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 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'll see you at the opera tonight. I'll hold your seat till you get there. After that, you're on your own. - Groucho Marx Albert Schweitzer's philosophy is that a sick, miserable African of today can be a strong healthy cannibal tomorrow. - Joe E Lewis My husband wanted one of those big-screen TVs for his birthday. So I just moved his chair closer to the one we have already. - Wendy Liebman The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. - Epictetus My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate - that's my philosophy. - Thornton Wilder Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. 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25-Jul-2021