Status Updates From As ideias têm consequências

“It has been well said that the chief trouble with the contemporary generation is that it has not read the minutes of the last meeting.”

“That there is a world of ought, that the apparent does not exhaust the real-these are so essential to the very conception of improvement that it should be superfluous to mention them. The opening made by our wedge is simply a denial that whatever is, is right, which takes the form of an insistence upon the rightness of right. Upon this rock of metaphysical right we shall build our house.”

“The newspaper is a man-made cosmos of the world of events around us at the time.” Oh, what would he think if he could see Twitter?

“When each becomes his own taskmaster and regards work as a curse which he endures only to gain means of subsistence, will he not constantly seek to avoid it? An employer was recently heard to remark that we have plenty of persons today who can tell us why a machine will not work but none will tell us why men will not work.”

“Specialization develops only part of a man; a man partially developed is deformed; and one deformed is the last person to be thought of as a ruler; so runs the irresistible logic of the position.”

I can’t help but think of the academic world of today.

Thought-provoking already, though he does flatten philosophical history more than necessary.