Sublime

Science, as George Bernard Shaw writes, “becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.”

Les idéologies sont de simples idées déguisées en vérités scientifiques ou philosophiques qui prétendent expliquer la complexité du monde et proposer des remèdes pour l’améliorer.

Philosophy

the pursuit of wealth is always a cover story.

“In some respects,” Gruber concluded, “Charles Darwin’s greatest works represent interpretative compilations of facts first gathered by others.” He was a lateral-thinking integrator.

Renowned physician and author Dr. Gabor Maté is a sought after expert on addiction, trauma, and childhood development. In this brilliant episode of  Pulling the Thread , he discusses various themes revolving around the relationship between stress and illness, a subject he's clinically explored over the course of four decades.

“I have to say, you’re wrong. Natural selection is a universal principle, which applies to all living things, but it can take all sorts of forms. It exists even in the plant world, where it’s a matter of access to nutritious soil, to water, to sunlight … Man is an animal, as we know, but he’s not a prairie dog or an antelope. His dominance doesn’t

he has never read Frédéric Dard, Libanius Antiochus, Michael Oakeshott, John Gray, Ammianus Marcellinus, Ibn Battuta, Saadia Gaon, or Joseph de Maistre;

Liberals forever agonise about such contradictions.