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I had been saying that the essence of AI was (is) to make theoretical psychology concrete.

World history, we have seen, is not the mere application of Hegel's thought but the working out of his metaphysics, and the most essential aspect of his metaphysics, as well as the most complete and brilliant flowering of the modern philosophy of rational control we study in this book. Here is Machiavelli and his successors brought to a rational end rich in insight and colored with beautifil descriptive reasoning.

For Hegel has no less scorn for the humdrum as for the recondite. He does not categorize nations by the kind of tool they used, as if some future archaeological expert would announce that the United States was a power lawn-mower culture.

With these strictures in mind to calculate Kant's debts, one may still consider the true language of modern political philosophy to be Machiavelli's Italian.

Von jenen geistig Armen und Haushälterischen, die ihre guten Einfälle hellerweise in der Sparbüchse sammeln, um sich dann für einen Gulden Autorenruhm auf einmal zu kaufen, sagte er: sie kämen ihm vor, wie Leute, die ihre ausgekämmten Haare sorgfältig aufbewahrten, um sich daraus eine Perücke machen zu lassen.

He thought scientists as a cultural type were generally undervalued for the breadth of their thinking, once telling a reporter, 'It's much more likely that your top scientist can whistle the melodies from three sonatas than it is that your humanities-trained person can pass the science section of the MCAT.

Ad formam nasi cognoscitur ad te levavi ...

If we would judge future generations for refusing themselves the pleasure of delighting in our cultural artifacts, on the basis of our strange customs, so too must we refuse our bad instinct of avoiding the works of the ancients for their barbarous mores.

Naturally, the imaginative apprehension of meaning cannot promise the certainty of dispassionate, logical investigation; but, nonetheless, the former involves a profound faith without which we definitely cannot live well, and without which we sometimes cannot live at all - a lesson learned by Mill at age twenty.

Virtue for its own sake is desired only by those who recognize its intrinsic value - by those who appreciate that virtue is integral to happiness.

Despite the disastrous effects of mass extinctions, the aftermath of the crises set the stage for the evolution of traits that would later prove to be critical for the establishment of new, more powerful lineages and a new world order.

In the ecosystems of nature, the only generally applicable mechanism for reducing inequality and diversity seems to be extinction, which disproportionately targets the most powerful players.

Je europäischer ein Mensch in Europa gelebt, um so härter wurde er von der Faust gezüchtigt, die Europa zerschlug.

Einmal als er mich fragte, wie ich einen schwierigen Satz in ›Portrait of an artist‹ deutsch wiedergeben würde, versuchten wir die Formung zusammen in Italienisch und Französisch; er hatte für jedes Wort vier oder fünf in jedem Idiom parat, selbst die dialektischen, und wußte ihren Valeur, ihr Gewicht bis in die kleinste Nuance.

Je mehr ich ihn kennenlernte, desto mehr setzte er mich durch seine
phantastische Sprachkenntnis in Erstaunen; hinter dieser runden, fest gehämmerten Stirn, die im elektrischen Licht wie Porzellan glatt glänzte, waren alle Vokabeln aller Idiome eingestanzt, und er spielte sie in brillantester Weise durcheinander.

Ich weiß nur und fühle die Pflicht, es dankbar auszusagen, welch eine Lehre, welch eine Beglückung die Gegenwart solcher heilig der Perfektion Verschworenen inmitten einer schon sich mechanisierenden Welt für
uns gewesen ist.

Aber doch: in seinem Letzten, seinem Verborgensten erkennt man ein Volk oder eine Stadt nie durch Bücher und selbst nicht durch fleißigstes Flanieren, sondern immer nur durch seine besten Menschen. Einzig aus geistiger Freundschaft mit den Lebenden gewinnt man Einblick in die wirklichen Zusammenhänge zwischen Volk und Land; alles Beobachten von außen bleibt ein unechtes und voreiliges Bild.

But is Joyce a great writer? Connolly is not sure. To begin with, 'he asks too much of his ideal reader.' 'Am I the only person,' Connolly wonders, who finds 'the plans and keys and clues and commentaries on Joyce's books more exhilarating than the originals?'

He was no longer a Christian himself; but he converted the temple to new uses instead of trying to knock it down, regarding it as a superior kind of human folly and one which, interpreted by a secular artist, contained obscured bits of truth.

Wit can be a way of seeing the world. Johnson describes it as an 'unexpected copulation of ideas, the discovery of some occult relation between images in appearance remote from each other.'

Many of the facts Ellmann collected for James Joyce are mundane or commonplace, the sort most biographers omit. 'Don't you think the way a genius ties his tie is important?' he once asked the Irish filmmaker Sean O'Mordha.

Yeats is always looking to further and to celebrate an aristocracy of culture, while Joyce, who depends more than Yeats upon such an aristocracy to read him, declines to endorse it, and in his work is concerned only with people who, he said, make less than a thousand pounds a year.

I do not think the business of education is to entertain students, or to make them feel good ... if inadvertently in the course of being instructed they should feel good, so much the better.

Although she and her sister Katty corresponded 'continuously' (Lucy Ellmann's word), sometime in the 1980s Katty, described by Lucy as 'very houseproud,' decided, as Lucy put it, 'to throw out all of my mother's letters - purely for tidying purposes ... My father was beside himself when he heard this, claiming that the whole history of our family was in those letters.'

Agnes describes him as 'middle-aged, paunchy and stupid,' the sort of man who 'overcame indifference or hostility by his slowness to comprehend it.'

At one point he owned a bakery, which failed in part because he gave all the bread away at the end of the day, so that eventually this became the only time customers turned up.

In recounting this anecdote in a later letter to Smith, Ellmann observed that 'the interesting thing about the British upper classes is that they actually act just as their caricaturists say.'

Ellmann writes of meeting two 'prize specimens' of the community at the rabbi's house, one of whom irritated him by claiming to be interested in people rather than culture, 'as if the people were independent of the culture. It's bad enough being uncultivated without attempting to justify it.'

Children like him should be patented and put into every home!

Erwin she describes as 'handicapped by his natural ability which could easily foster idleness.'