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“Gödel’s incompleteness theorems brought the second ending of the Grundlagenstreit. Where Hilbert had won the conflict in the social sense, he had lost it in the scientific sense.”
― L.E.J. Brouwer – Topologist, Intuitionist, Philosopher: How Mathematics Is Rooted in Life
― L.E.J. Brouwer – Topologist, Intuitionist, Philosopher: How Mathematics Is Rooted in Life
“Vous voyez bien qu'à travers toutes les phrases et toutes les promesses démocratiques et socialistes du programme de M. Marx, on retrouve dans son État tout ce qui constitue la propre nature despotique et brutale de tous les États, quelle que soit la forme de leur gouvernement, et qu'à la fin des comptes l'État populaire tant recommandé par M. Marx et l'État aristocratico-monarchique maintenu avec tant d'habileté et de puissance par M. de Bismarck s'identifie complètement par la nature de leur but tant intérieur qu'extérieur. A l'extérieur, c'est le même déploiement de la force militaire, c'est-à-dire la conquête ; et à l'intérieur c'est le même emploi de cette force armée, dernier argument de tous les pouvoirs politique menacés, contre les masses qui, fatiguées de croire, d'espérer, de se résigner et d'obéir toujours, se révoltent.”
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“Oh, for the time when I shall sleep without identity.
and never care how rain may steep,
or snow may cover me –”
― The Complete Poems
and never care how rain may steep,
or snow may cover me –”
― The Complete Poems
“Los Angeles will not, of course, collapse. Rather, it will stagger on with higher body counts and greater distress, through a chain of more frequent and destructive encounters with disasters of all sorts. Southern California’s golden age forever will be superseded. It is not simply its conjugation of earthquakes, wildfires, and floods, but it’s uniquely explosive mixture of natural hazards and social contradictions.”
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“Louis XVI was executed because they considered him a criminal, and a year later they executed those who executed him—also for some reason. What is bad? What is good? What should one love and what hate? What does one live for? And what am I? What is life, and what is death? What power governs all?”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
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