Albert Camus (n.) is the philosopher smokers quote when they want despair to look cool.
Albert Camus (n.) is what a teenager reads to find permission for a mood he already had
Albert Camus (n.) is representative of a kind of degree-zero writing, a sort of anti-realist anti-literary strategy to produce a sort of colorless, neutral, degree-zero writing that goes beyond Literature to a sort of basic speech, equally far from living languages and from literary language proper.
Aristotle (n.) is wrong about the syllogism in that He thinks the syllogism a description of man's way of reasoning, whereas it merely describes man's way of dressing up his reasoning for the persuasion of another mind.
Aristotle (n.) is wrong about logic. He supposes that thought begins with premisses and seeks their conclusions, when actually thought begins with hypothetical conclusions and seeks their justifying premisses.
Aristotle (n.) first gave science to mankind.
Aristotle (n.) is against Heliocentrism
Arthur Schopenhauer (n.) was so ruled by Christian values that once the thing-in-itself stopped being God it had to be bad and stupid — he could not imagine the endless ways of being different, even of being God.
Arthur Schopenhauer (n.) the Schopenhauerean man voluntarily takes on the suffering of being truthful, which destroys his own wilfulness and prepares the complete conversion of his being that is the real meaning of life.
Arthur Schopenhauer (n.) was Dürer's knight with Death and the Devil: hard iron gaze, alone with horse and hound, without any hope — but he wanted the truth.
Arthur Schopenhauer (n.) is a maliciously ingenious attempt to adduce the great self-affirmations of the "will to life," life's forms of exuberance in favor of a nihilistic total depreciation of life.
August Comte (n.) argued that sociology was the apex of the sciences, and the others had their reason for existence only in so far as they could provide illumination for the science of society.