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[Colette’s daughter sewing and thinking]
His [Han’s] tinkering is done with the stuff of thought rather than ‘wires or soldering irons’. The metaphor conveys a sense of thinking as more an environment than an activity, a distinctly German conception of the thinker’s vocation. ... [Han:] ‘Thinking is also tinkering, and thinking can produce explosion... See more
His [Han’s] tinkering is done with the stuff of thought rather than ‘wires or soldering irons’. The metaphor conveys a sense of thinking as more an environment than an activity, a distinctly German conception of the thinker’s vocation. ... [Han:] ‘Thinking is also tinkering, and thinking can produce explosion... See more
Sublime Zettels March 2025
We have become tiny, relatively wealthy cogs in giant, efficient machines. And yet, in our quiet moments, we reverberate with private longings to give our multitudinous selves expression.
Alain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
Margaret J. Wheatley: The Unplanned Organization
margaretwheatley.com‘A life without temporal boundaries,’ writes the philosopher Samuel Scheffler, ‘would be no more a life than a circle without a circumference would be a circle.’
Derren Brown • Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine
Rudolf Steiner’s The Philosophy of Freedom (1)
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Marc-Uwe Kling: "Wir Müssen Die Plattformen Zwingen, Uns Freizulassen" | ZEIT ONLINE
Dr. Stefan Schmittzeit.deIn ordinary language, we frequently speak of machinery or ideas ‘doing’ things in our lives. But they do nothing. People – human persons – produce, operate and apply their creations. The problem with assigning agency, even informally, to the nonhuman is that this disguises the strength of human control, limited though it is in other respects. It le... See more
Bennett Gilbert • On hope, philosophical personalism and Martin Luther King Jr | Aeon Essays
The Beginning of Infinity
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