“The History of the World travels from East to West, for Europe is absolutely the end of History, Asia the beginning.”
― The Philosophy of History
― The Philosophy of History
“The fact that entangled particles can influence each other faster than the speed of light is taken as proof that there is a spiritual domain of instant communication outside material reality; the fact that a wave function collapses into reality through observation is interpreted as a proof that observation creates reality... no wonder many podcasts claim that quantum mechanics proves material reality is a simulacrum, that all there is, is spirit, etc.”
― Quantum History: A New Materialist Philosophy
― Quantum History: A New Materialist Philosophy
“The sucker’s trap is when you focus on what you know and what others don’t know, rather than the reverse.”
― The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
― The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“You can only convince people who think they can benefit from being convinced.”
― The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
― The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
“Individualism has a bad name today, and the term has come to be connected with egotism and selfishness.7 But the individualism of which we speak in contrast to socialism and all other forms of collectivism has no necessary connection with these. Only gradually in the course of this book shall we be able to make clear the contrast between the two opposing principles.”
― The Road to Serfdom
― The Road to Serfdom
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