Mike S
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Mike S
What is vitally needed everywhere, in art as much as in ethics, in poetry as much as in politics, is choice; a creative power in the will as well as in the mind. Without that self–limitation of somebody, nothing living will ever see the light.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
Bearing false witness (Rodney stark)
‘We are as gods,’ Stewart Brand famously told his readers, ‘and we might as well get good at it.’
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.”
Literary References for Uncertainty Analysis and for X
Thornton Wilder, The Eighth Day
“Yes, everything’s hopeless, but we are the slaves of hope”
They insist that nothing but what was in the bodies of the parents can go to make the bodies of the children. But they seem somehow to think that things can get into the heads of the children which were not in the heads of the parents, or, indeed, anywhere else.
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • What's Wrong with the World
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
It is still in some strange way considered unpractical to open up inquiries about anything by asking what it is.