> >
> > >
> > > Anyone know what philosopher said this and what it means?:
> > >
> > > "The owl of Minerva spreads its wings and takes flight only at dusk."
> > >
> > > TIA,
> > >
> > > - Adrienne
>
>  "Philosophy bakes no bread! It leads to no answers, makes no progress, and
invo
>    lves incessant
> arguing in circles!" or, in the elevated idiom of Hegel:    "One word more
about
>     giving instruction as
> to what the world ought to be. Philosophy in any  case always comes on the
scene
>     too late to give
> it... The owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the
dusk."
>
> I have no idea what it means.
>
> Marc Picard