Martin Black
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all the endless things
Martin Black
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For instance, Tschaikovsky wrote, “The germ of a future composition comes suddenly and unexpectedly. If the soil is ready . . .” And Mary Shelley: “Invention does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.” And Stephen Spender: “There is nothing we imagine which we do not already know. And our ability to imagine is our ability to rememb... See more
Feynman's Rainbow by Leonard Mlodinow
We were to read Thomas Hobbes in the first seminar I attended. Strauss began without further ado to say that we would read only the first two parts of the Leviathan, that this was "disgraceful" but that we would have our hands full doing justice to even that much. After that, he turned unceremoniously to some introductory remarks.
The fir
I was raised an atheist. My atheist beliefs were weakened however after my first time on magic mushrooms, and then fundamentally destroyed after experiencing my satori, the kick in the eye as Bauhaus put it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmWjRqJoCe0
... Never lose sight of the graph of a human life, which
is not composed, whatever people may say, of a horizontal
and two perpendiculars, but rather of three curving lines,
drawn out to infinity, forever meeting and forever diverg-
ing: what a man has believed himself to be, what he wished
to be, and what he was.
—Marguerite Yourcenar
... See moreThe aspect of Scott Buchanan’s life to which this memoir relates began, for me at least, with a college lecture he gave in October of 1944.
The lecture was a flight of high speculative fancy in which he tried to imagine the features of a Republic of Learning joined with a political republic.
If man is a political animal, his virtues compromised and
maxims and
What is hate? The dictionary definition of “extreme dislike” feels unsatisfying. Philosophers have a more refined understanding, and have been musing about this state since Aristotle. In Rhetoric , the Greek philosopher contrasted hate with anger. Anger is directed at particular actions and is fleeting, while hate is enduring and directed at a pers... See more
