November 2009
21 posts
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“ “We must be clear that when it comes to atoms, language can be used only...”
– Niels Bohr, Danish physicist who made fundamental contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics (1885-1962)
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“ “Man stands alone in the universe, responsible for his condition, likely to...”
– Walter Kaufmann (German-American philosopher, translator, poet, Professor at Princeton University (1921-1980), Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre
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“ “It was true to say that our considerations could not be scientific ones....”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein in Philosophical Investigations: the German text, with a revised English translation, Wiley-Blackwell, 2001, 3rd Edition, p. 40. Originally published posthumously as Philosophische Untersuchungen (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkam, 1953) cited in Entersection.
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“ “In a logically perfect language the words in a proposition would...”
– Bertrand Russell, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism (full text in pdf)
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“ “We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one...”
– Anaïs Nin, French-Cuban author, journalist (1903-1977)
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“ “It has not been definitively proved that the language of words is the...”
– Antonin Artaud, The Theater and its Double, New York: Grove Press, 1958, p. 107. Originally published as Le théatre et son double, (Paris: Gallimard, 1938). Translated from the French by Mary Caroline Richards. Cited by Rolando Perez in On An(archy) and Schizoanalysis, (Brooklyn, New York:...
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“ “The universe is perfectly transparent: we exist as flaws in ancient...”
– John Updike, American novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic (1932-2009)
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“ “Every real thing, and ultimately the whole world as it exists for us in...”
– Edmund Husserl, Psychological and Transcendental Phenomenology
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“ “Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there...”
– John Langshaw Austin, British philosopher of language (1911-1960), Philosophical Papers
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“ “To see the world in a grain of sand, and heaven in a wild flower, hold...”
– William Blake, Auguries of Innocence, c. 1803
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“ “After all, the alchemist continued to live in the desert, even though he...”
– Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
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“ “Happiness (beatitudo) is the good which, once achieved, leaves nothing...”
– Boëthius, Christian philosopher of the early 6th century, On the Consolation of Philosophy
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“Theodor W. Adorno on happiness
“To happiness the same applies as to...”
– Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections From Damaged Life
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“ “Progress is the realization of utopias.” ”
– Oscar Wilde, Irish writer and poet (1854-1900) cited in Utopia - Expressions Of Utopianism
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“ “If Western man now stops thinking and dreaming the materials of new...”
– Frederik L. Polak, Dutch founding fathers of futures studies (1907–1985) cited in Utopia - Expressions Of Utopianism
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“ “My visit to Google? Despite the whimsical furniture and other toys, I...”
– George Dyson in his essay “Turing’s Cathedral: A visit to Google on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of John von Neumann’s proposal for a digital computer, Edge October 24, 2005
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“ “Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre, French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic (1905-1980)
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“ “Life is order, death is disorder. A fundamental law of Nature states...”
– Bo G. Malmström (via scienceisbeauty)
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“ “To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a...”
– Richard Feynman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (1918-1988)
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“ “Everything of beauty in the world has it’s ultimate origins in the human...”
– Eliezer Yudkowsky, American artificial intelligence researcher concerned with the Singularity and an advocate of Friendly Artificial Intelligence.
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“ “Now, wheresoever you are, know, that I am with you, and you are so to...”
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca on self-improvement in Seneca’s Morals: By way of Abstract; To which is added, A Discourse, under the Title of An After-Thought, edited by Sir Roger L’Estrange, London: by W. Bowyer for Jacob Tonson, 1702, Edition 8, p. 405. Originally published London: by Tho. Newcomb for... 