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“We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.”
— E.O. Wilson (1999: 294)
“Our language is an imperfect instrument created by ancient and ignorant men. It is an animistic language that invites us to talk about stability and constants, about similarities and normal and kinds, about magical transformations, quick cures, simple problems, and final solutions. Yet the world we try to symbolize with this language is a world of
... See moreMarshall B. Rosenberg • Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships (Nonviolent Communication Guides)
The Marginalian • Buckminster Fuller’s Manifesto for the Genius of Generalists
It’s not for nothing that Kafka spoke of literature as “a hatchet with which we chop at the frozen seas inside us.”
David Foster Wallace • Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays
Luke Burgis • Everything Is Fast
They were infected with what the literary philosopher George Steiner calls a taste for “the sovereignly useless,” and had acquired the bizarre habit of being “interested in something for its own enigmatic sake,” which Steiner suggests “may be the best excuse there is for man.”5 “All philosophy begins in wonder,” Socrates, through his scribe Plato,
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