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Beauregard Bottomley Beauregard Bottomley said: " Myths are never myths to those who believe. The stories we tell ourselves in order to encode our hopes, aspirations and fears are one way we shape our understanding. Hegel used concepts, St. Thomas Aquinas saw our understanding through actions (the ‘ ...more "

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"As relevant to today and the madness that is Donald Trump than anything you'll see on Facebook or see in political blogs. I would love to dissect this lecture and tell you why, but as No. 2 said to No. 6 in the "Prisoner" 'that would be telling'. 'be seeing you'." Oct 06, 2017 02:11PM

 
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Isaac Asimov
“I believe that scientific knowledge has fractal properties, that no matter how much we learn, whatever is left, however small it may seem, is just as infinitely complex as the whole was to start with. That, I think, is the secret of the Universe.”
Isaac Asimov

Wil Wheaton
“The reality of this election is that we can choose between a disappointing Democrat and the end of the world.”
Wil Wheaton

Carlo Rovelli
“To trust immediate intuitions rather than collective examination that is rational, careful, and intelligent is not wisdom: it is the presumption of an old man who refuses to believe that the great world outside his village is any different from the one that he has always known. As”
Carlo Rovelli, Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

Friedrich Nietzsche
“Perspectivism is only a complex form of specificity[.] My idea is, that every specific body strives to become lord over all of space and to expand its force (—its will to power) and to repel everything that resists its own expansion. But it perpetually collides with the equal efforts of other bodies, and ends by making an arrangement (“unifying”) with those that are closely enough related to it:—thus they conspire together to power. And the process goes on….”
Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche
“Among the things that can drive a thinker to despair is the knowledge that the illogical is necessary for man and that much good comes from it.”
Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

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