Michael Schaffner
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Michael Schaffner
The truth is, that there is nothing in common at all between these teachers, except that they teach. In short, the only thing they share is the one thing they profess to dislike: the general idea of authority.
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • What's Wrong with the World
The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Quotes on Models and Their Uses
To accept everything is an exercise, to understand everything a strain.
(Chesterton, Orthodoxy)
“Always suspect everybody” -Foxey, Sampson brass’s father
Capital hands at business have made, and do daily make, this axiom their polar star and compass
“Only the paranoid survive” —Andy
Literary References for Uncertainty Analysis
Thornton Wilder, The Eighth Day
They never fell into the habit of the idle revolutionists of supposing that the past was bad because the future was good, which amounted to asserting that because humanity had never made anything but mistakes it was now quite certain to be right.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
For to him, and nearly all the educated youth of that epoch, the stars were cruel things. Though they glowed in the great dome every night, they were an enormous and ugly secret; they uncovered the nakedness of nature; they were a glimpse of the iron wheels and pulleys behind the scenes. For the young men of that sad time thought that the god always comes from the machine. They did not know that in reality the machine only comes from the god. In short, they were all pessimists, and starlight was atrocious to them— atrocious because it was true. All their universe was black with white spots.
(Chesterton, Manalive)
I do fear that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty will be dealt by this country, in the failure of its example on the earth.”
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
The point is, that the poor in London are not left alone, but rather deafened and bewildered with raucous and despotic advice. They are not like sheep without a shepherd. They are more like one sheep whom twenty-seven shepherds are shouting at. All the newspapers, all the new advertisements, all the new medicines and new theologies, all the glare a
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Education, learning, epistemology and for X
Is disinformation/misinformation really a new problem?