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It is commonly assumed that science will someday yield a single unchanging view of things.

John Gray • Seven Types of Atheism

For some time now, philosophy and psychology have existed as very separate disciplines, the latter more concerned with observing or fixing pathologies than studying how we might most happily live out our short lives. Then, recently, visionaries in both fields have again found common ground.

Derren Brown • Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine

Twenty-five years ago Allan Bloom proclaimed a heresy: The supposed idealism of the 1960s was in fact a veneer hiding a new barbarism. He saw that our elite liberal culture has a very definite vision, however much it talks about diversity, multiculturalism, and the like: the relativism of moral truth. This anti-dogmatic dogma, he thought, is leadin... See more

practical significance

Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do

You have people walking around with all the knowledge of humanity on their phone, but they have no idea how to integrate it. We don’t train people in thinking or reasoning.”

David Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

À l'époque où vécut Djerzinski, on considérait le plus souvent la philosophie comme dénuée de toute importance pratique, voire d'objet. En réalité, la vision du monde la plus couramment adoptée, à un moment donné, par les membres d'une société détermine son économie, sa politique et ses mœurs.

Michel Houellebecq • Les particules élémentaires (French Edition)

Selfhood in humans is not the expression of any central unity. We are programmed to perceive identity in ourselves, when in truth there is only change, We are hardwired for the illusion of self.

- John Gray, as quoted by Tim Carpenter in To Photograph Is To Learn How To Die

Thom Wong • Being Yourself (S2E3)

We continue to ask the same questions that were asked by Plato, Machiavelli, Hobbes, and others. We may not accept their answers and it's very likely that we do not, but their questions are often put with a kind of unrivaled clarity and insight. The fact is that there are still people in the world, many people, who regard themselves as Aristotelian... See more