Just Politics

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Hell is other people … misquoting philosophers
By Brandon [e-mail] Nov 17, 2014, 1:20pm EST

"Cogito ergo sum." "Hell is other people." "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must remain silent.

These are three of the most quoted statements in the history of philosophy but, as Mike Rugnetta of PBS's Idea Channel notes, they're just as frequently misinterpreted.

This works to about 7:30 in, as much for the video clips as the verbal content. After that a little too tedious for my tastes. My misunderstanding of the meaning of 'hell is other people', as in troll posters posting enigmatic riddles, led me to this. I don't know which philosopher created 'WTF?!', but it works for me most of the time when confronted with shit posts.

https://www.vox.com/2014/11/17/7229547/philosophy-quotes-misunderstood-wittgenstein-sartre-descartes