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 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 History is philosophy teaching by example. - Dionysius Easy Chair: The hardest one to find empty. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com One who sits between two chairs may easily fall down. - Romanian and Russian Proverb America is so advanced that even the chairs are electric. - Doug Hamwell Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there. - Sydney J. Harris 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 Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know. - Bertrand Russell Tragedy: a busload of lawyers going over a cliff with an empty seat. - Unknown I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time. - Charles Schulz You should not paint the chair, but only what someone has felt about it. - Edvard Munch Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious. - Ruth Reichl 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 There's no one way to dance. And that's kind of my philosophy about everything. - Ellen Degeneres 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 Worry is like a rocking chair. It will give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere. - Unknown Chair pose is a defiance of spirit, showing how high you can reach even when you're forced down. - Unknown Stay in your seat come times of trouble. Its only people who jump off the roller coaster who get hurt. - Paul Harvey I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison. - WC Fields I wanted to do something nice so I bought my mother-in-law a chair. Now they won't let me plug it in. - Henny Youngman You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants. - Stephen King 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'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 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 The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. 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21-Jan-2022