Jede sollte ihre eigene Schildkröten essen – Gleichheit in der Ungewissheit
Der Ursprung des Ausdrucks ist wie folgt. Man erzählt sich, dass eine Gruppe von Fischern eine große..
26 SeptemberDer Ursprung des Ausdrucks ist wie folgt. Man erzählt sich, dass eine Gruppe von Fischern eine große..
26 SeptemberI found this remarkable passage from Montaigne on Facebook; since it was new to me and I figure will..
12 FebruaryFive percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.Thomas Edison
The superior mind will find itself equally at odds with the evils of society, and with the projects that are offered to relieve them. I, as the wise skeptic, am a bad citizen; no conservative.
14 NovemberOn the importance of being a polymath:
13 NovemberPolymathics might focus on rapid methods of learning that allow..
a human being should be able to write a song, cook a tasty meal, butcher a red deer, write poetry,..
8 August
‘If we believe that fire warms, or water refreshes, ’tis only because it costs us too much pains to think otherwise.’
I’ve been told that Kant, Hegel and Kierkegaard were poor writers whose impenetrable prose style is incidental to their philosophy. I’ve also been told that their views are so profound as to defy expression in terms comprehensible even to smart, p…
13 FebruarySometimes I am at awe of the amount of information that we have generated and stored. Many have postulated that as economic cost of storage exponentially decreased, we will perpetually expand the amount of information produced – an exponential inc…
2 February