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So that’s the story so far: in search of social belonging, and the blessed shortcuts that we can take when we’re in the presence of like-minded people, we come to rely on keywords, and then metaphors, and then myths—and at every stage habits become more deeply ingrained in us, habits that inhibit our ability to think.
Alan Jacobs • How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds
Protagoras observed a strange paradox about language. Despite the perpetual flux and change of the physical world, language lends the mistaken impression that the world is not in flux, that it is stable. As the Presocratic philosopher Empedocles had observed only a few years before, ‘there is no birth for any mortal thing, nor any cursed end in
... See moreRobin Reames • Ancient Greek Antilogic Is the Craft of Suspending Judgment
Macaulay believed that the disjunctions that afflicted us were intrinsic to the human condition and there was no permanent escape from them.
Richard Holloway • Stories We Tell Ourselves: Making Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
Gerade weil so viele Gruppen von Expertinnen, Politikerinnen und Medien ein Interesse daran haben, Bedrohungen beim Namen zu nennen, können wir sagen, dass liberale Gesellschaften die Furcht mitnichten beseitigt, sondern in Wirklichkeit in eine umfassende Gefühlsstruktur verwandelt haben.
Eva Illouz • Explosive Moderne: Eine scharfsinnige Analyse unserer emotionsgeladenen Gegenwart (German Edition)
Peter Thiel • The Straussian Moment
To conceal meaning (it was reasoned) is equally to conceal lack of meaning….
William Zinsser • Writing to Learn: How to Write - and Think - Clearly About Any Subject at All
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John Berger • Bento's Sketchbook
Perplexity
hedgehogreview.comwe need to make a vital distinction: between those who held what we now believe to be a profoundly mistaken view, or tolerated such a view, simply because it was common in their time, and those who were the architects of and advocates for such a view.