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It is still in some strange way considered unpractical to open up inquiries about anything by asking what it is.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
Literary References for Uncertainty Analysis and
Thornton Wilder, The Eighth Day
“There was always hope that in talk, talk, talk he could alter the past, conjure the future, and impose an estimable image of himself upon the present.”
Accurate description of Twitter, using crows and a graveyard (dickens, curiosity shop)
Thornton Wilder, The Eighth Day
“When I was young I used to be astonished at how little progress was made in the world — all those fine words, all those noble talkative men and women, those plans, those cornerstones, those constitutions drawn up for ideal republics. They don’t make a dent on the average man or woman.”
It is said that they who wander in darkness, and still more they who do so in a mist, merely scribe circles across the plain.
Gene Wolfe • The Urth of the New Sun: The sequel to 'The Book of the New Sun'
We rejoice when we find remaining in the world any cases in which the individual can see the beginning and the end of his own work.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
Proving a false identity? What in the world is the output here?
The only intelligible sense that progress or advance can have among men, is that we have a definite vision, and that we wish to make the whole world like that vision.