Thread by @AgnesCallard

Unintentional Philosophical Haikus. A Thread

When I turn my eye
inward, I find nothing but
doubt and ignorance.
--David Hume, A Treatise of Human Nature

Eliran Haziza of U Toronto has written a program to strip occurrences of "unintentional haiku" from texts; via @BrianLeiter

We sometimes say: in
later life I will be a
different person.
--David Lewis, "Survival and Identity"

Snow falls, and is white;
the falling is a process,
the whiteness is not.
--Bertrand Russell, The Analysis of Mind

The game, one would like
to say, has not only rules
but also a point.
--Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations

Suppose that I cling
to some rock as a mere means
of escaping death.
--Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons

You have an auto
accident one winter night
on a lonely road.
--Thomas Nagel, The View from Nowhere

No Grandfather, no
Father; no Father, no Tim;
no Tim, no killing.
--David Lewis, “The Paradoxes of Time Travel”