Michael Schaffner
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Michael Schaffner
find that relief in constant motion, which is the hope of all active minds when invaded by distress.
George MacDonald • Phantastes, a Faerie Romance for Men and Women
Democracy is never quite democratic except when it is quite direct; and it is never quite direct except when it is quite small.
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • The New Jerusalem
It willingly acquiesces if told false information
Thornton Wilder, The Eighth Day
“I guess there’s no hope for me. I’ll have to get used to it. As long as other people are happy, ishkabibble.”
That is the one eternal education; to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child. From this high audacious duty the moderns are fleeing on every side; and the only excuse for them is, (of course,) that their modern philosophies are so half-baked and hypothetical that they cannot convince themselves enough to convince
... See moreG. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • What's Wrong with the World
For progress by its very name indicates a direction; and the moment we are in the least doubtful about the direction, we become in the same degree doubtful about the progress.
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • Heretics
Nature paper demonstrates that training AI on AI-generated data eventually produces nonsense (as expected?).
For definitions are very dreadful things: they do the two things that most men, especially comfortable men, cannot endure. They fight; and they fight fair.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
From the Enlightenment on, modern political philosophy has been character- ized by the abandonment of a set of questions that an earlier age had deemed central: What is a well-lived life? What does it mean to be human? What is the nature of the city and humanity? How does culture and religion fit into all of this? For the modern world, the death of... See more