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If any time a proponent of a philosophy has a bad life you declare the philosophy failed, there must be very few left.

A fault on philosophy. What’s left is the unspeakable Path

The thing that really gets me is that he wore button up shirts a lot. Look at where that got him.

Dead in a shed from a fire that started from candles. I can't believe people still wear these.

Oddly enough, I think what he said still stands, but as one of the sibling comments points out, he didn't take his own advice.

Simply knowing what's true, and teaching what is true, doesn't make you a true believer.

Then I guess I'm a philospher too: do what I say, not what I do.

A philosophy should not be judged based on its abuses.

Why not?

Could have been Dahmer's philosophy.