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| 6f3d6a7 | Huxley's Perennial Philosophy is concerned with] the need to love the earth and respect nature instead of following the example of those who 'chopped down vast forests to provide the newsprint demanded by that universal literacy which was to make the world safe for intelligence and democracy, and got wholesale erosion, pulp magazines, and organs of Fascist, Communist, capitalist, and nationalist propaganda.' He attacked 'technological imper.. | Nicholas Murray | ||
| 693ca50 | Why one goes on writing when one sees what writing can be - and what one's own writing is not. Aldous Huxley | on-writing | Nicholas Murray | |
| de54d30 | All deeply good characters in imaginative literature, have to be, as it were, diluted with weakness or eccentricity; for only on such conditions are they comprehensible by readers and expressible by writers. Aldous Huxley | on-writing | Nicholas Murray | |
| ba88e8c | Huxley believed tat anyone "with a gift for the knowledge of ultimate reality" could do far more good "by sticking to his curious activities on the margin of society than by going to the centre and trying to improve matters there." | Nicholas Murray | ||
| 3e7ce70 | My life has been a disaster on the grand scale - that I'd better make clear from the start. A catalogue of my former ambitions would give a Napoleon stage-fright. Art, Ethics, Theology, the Sciences (both practical and occult), even Perception itself, to say nothing of my later efforts at Empire Building, Commerce and Exploration - each of these were at some stage fields which I intended to master. My personality accepted no limits; all tha.. | Paul Strathern | ||
| 7d4e9a2 | Parte do talento excepcional de Einstein residia em sua capacidade de refletir sobre os mais complexos problemas e formulas e perceber os principios fundamentais sobre os quais estes se sustentam. | Paul Strathern | ||
| 73b41d8 | Comecara a fumar cachimbo e sua bebida preferida era cafe gelado. (Na epoca, Einstein nao bebia cerveja, sobretudo porque nao dispunha de dinheiro suficiente. Na realidade, durante toda a sua vida, nunca teve apreco pelo alcool: achava que embotava seu cerebro.) | Paul Strathern | ||
| 919269b | 1 + 1 = 2 is simply an induction from experience. It is in no way logically or arithmetically 'necessary'. It is induced knowledge, on a par with 'All swans are white'. | Paul Strathern | ||
| 247b588 | side of Plato: The strongest principle is that everybody, whether they are male or female, should have a leader. Likewise, no one should get into the habit of doing anything at all on his own initiative - either in earnest or in jest. Both in war and during time of peace, he should respect his leader and follow him faithfully. He should look up to his leader and follow his guidance in even the smallest matters. For example, he should get up.. | Paul Strathern | ||
| be2ba76 | Sayginlik iyiligin isareti, ikiyuzluluk ise kotulugun isaretiydi.Insanlar kurallari bozdular fakat toplum olarak degil. Sartre ve Beauvoir kuralin disina cikmislardi. Bu, o zamanlar Fransa'da yapilacak en kustahca seydi. Fakat onlarin bu davranisi daha sonralari tum dunyadaki entelektuellere ilham kaynagi oldu | Paul Strathern | ||
| 4a240ec | she | Paul Strathern | ||
| 1034929 | Plotinus had been born in Alexandria at the beginning of the third century A.D. Like many brilliant critics, he thought he understood what he had read better than the author himself. | Paul Strathern | ||
| c8012b5 | Are there any circumstances in which philosophy is not a power game, albeit one that it is conducted according to the most rigid rules, which are intended to direct us toward the truth? Anyone who feels confident enough to answer this question should ponder the words of Xenophanes: 'No one knows, or will ever know, the truth about the gods and everything; for if one chanced to say the whole truth, nevertheless one would never know it.' This.. | Paul Strathern | ||
| 1c58c49 | Rose's experiences had transformed her from a provincial innocent with a Caribbean accent into a woman of sophistication and hard realism, but the uncertainties of her position had taken their psychological toll, inclining her to extravagance and promiscuity. The bloom of her youth was beginning to fade, and she had such bad teeth ("like cloves") that rather than open her mouth to laugh, she maintained a tight-lipped smile whilst snickering.. | Paul Strathern | ||
| ef512c3 | Bulmasaydin, aramazdin beni. | Paul Strathern | ||
| fcf7c00 | Aslinda, teorileri, olan teorileri bir bir curutmeyle ilgiliydi. Descartes yanlisti, Kant yetersiz ve Hegel bir burjuvaydi. Geleneksel filozoflarin hicbiri 20.yuzyilda yasamak icin yeterli degildi. Ic dunyasiyla yogun ilgilenisi, psikolojik haritasini anlamasina yol acti ve Freud onu buyulemisti. Fakat sonunda Freud'un da yeterli olmadigini fark etti : Psikanaliz, zihnin ozerkligini reddediyordu. Entelektuel devlerin bir bir dokulmesiyle ge.. | Paul Strathern | ||
| 12dfb31 | If you can't feel it, it must be real. | Barbara Kruger | ||
| 8665a8a | The only person who can forgive me is the one I've wronged. That's the power we have. We can use that power for good -- to forgive someone. Or we can use it to hold on to old wrongs and hurts so that they never heal | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| c3f8539 | Tarde muchos anos en descubrir que el inquieto viajero solo tenia una meta: huir de si mismo | Arthur Koestler | ||
| e265bb6 | Angelfucker." "Pardon?" | Sylvain Reynard | ||
| 17a33e4 | Memory is your image of perfection. | Barbara Kruger | ||
| 22ea6dc | En la ecuacion social, el valor de una sola vida es cero; en la ecuacion cosmica, es infinito. | Arthur Koestler | ||
| 7989805 | Hay dos clases de valentia: la del valiente y la del cobarde | Arthur Koestler | ||
| a924926 | El valor consiste en no permitir que tus temores influyan sobre tus actos. | Arthur Koestler | ||
| 23cf4a2 | El marxismo, como el freudianismo ortodoxo, como el catolicismo, es un sistema cerrado. El sistema cerrado excluye la posibilidad de la argumentacion objetiva, mediante dos procedimientos relacionados entre si: a) de acuerdo con las reglas escolasticas, se quita todo valor probatorio a los hechos; b) se invalidan las objeciones desplazando la discusion al motivo psicologico que provoca la objecion. | Arthur Koestler | ||
| f9ef8b4 | Lo que distingue al rebelde cronicamente indignado del revolucionario consciente es que el primero es capaz de cambiar de causa y el segundo, no. El rebelde dirige su indignacion de pronto contra esta injusticia, de pronto contra aquella; el revolucionario es un hombre que odia con metodo, que ha reunido toda su capacidad de odio en un solo objeto. El rebelde siempre tiene algun rasgo quijotesco; el revolucionario es un burocrata de la utop.. | Arthur Koestler | ||
| 02a49c2 | In the ring this had always brought him considerable applause, but he had learned to his regret that in the class struggle the double Nelson was not done. | Arthur Koestler | ||
| 71b5da4 | Just then Michael was exercised about a letter he had received from Michael Scammell, Arthur Koestler's authorised biographer, raising doubts that his subject had actually raped Jill. Certain of her friends had expressed their skepticism to Scammell, he reported. Michael pronounced Scammell's name so that it sounded to me like "Scoundrel." -- | Carl Rollyson | ||
| 4663abb | Se tiene conocimiento de todo lo que sucede en las lejanas nebulosas de los cielos, pero nada se sabe de las circunvoluciones cerebrales; esta es , probablemente, la causa de que la historia tenga mas de oraculo que de ciencia. Quizas algun dia mucho mas tarde, se ensene esto por medio de tablas estadisticas, juntamente con las secciones trasversales,. El maestro escribira en la pizarra en la pizarra una formula algebraica que represente la.. | totalitarismo | A. Koestler | |
| d9dc0f9 | Uparkhei enas agraphos kai sugkinetikos nomos pou thelei s'oles tis megales katastrophes-purkagies, plemmures, polemous-oi phtokhoi na sozoun prin ap'ola to krebbati tous. | Arthur Koestler | ||
| 8814958 | Talk about Michael sex's life segued into a discussion of Arthur Koestler's rape of Jill, a story that Michael himself first revealed in a review of a book about Koestler. He caused an uproar in the press and among Jill's and Michael's friends. Frederic Raphael wrote a piece questioning Jill's account, suggesting she had exaggerated or perhaps had even led Koestler on. There were other skeptics, although another woman came forward, writing .. | Carl Rollyson | ||
| 7f27d83 | Meta apo exi bdomades monaxias, eikha toso polu sikhathei ton eauto mou, pou mou milousa ston plethuntiko kai me phonaza kurio. | Arthur Koestler | ||
| 1e025af | Eikhe pia kathierothei, edo kai merika khronia, mia paradose pou elege oti oi diktatores energoun kai oi demokraties diamarturontai. Einai ena eidos katamerismou tes ergasias pou phainetai pos ikanopoiouse olon ton kosmo. | Arthur Koestler | ||
| 2ebd7a4 | What a mess," [Rubashov] said, "what a mess we have made of our golden age." Ivanov smiled. "Maybe," he said happily. "Look at the Gracchi and Saint Just and the Commune of Paris. Up to now, all revolutions have been made by moralizing dilettantes. They were always in good faith and perished because of their dilettantism. We for the first time are consequent. . . ." "Yes," said Rubashov. ". . . So consequent that, to settle a difference of .. | Arthur Koestler | ||
| f4d73ed | So the Ukraine came to resemble "one vast Belsen." 93 A population of "walking corpses" struggled to survive on a diet of roots, weeds, grass, bark and furry catkins.94 They devoured dogs, cats, snails, mice, ants, earth-worms. They boiled up old skins and ground down dry bones. They even ate horse-manure for the whole grains of seed it contained. Cannibalism became so commonplace that the OGPU received a special directive on the subject fr.. | Piers Brendon | ||
| 1a91463 | We said that if you don't quench those flames at once, they will spread all over the world; you thought we were maniacs. At present we have the mania of trying to tell you about the killing, by hot steam, mass-electrocution and live burial of the total Jewish population of Europe. So far three million have died. It is the greatest mass-killing in recorded history; and it goes on daily, hourly, as regularly as the ticking of your watch. I ha.. | Arthur Koestler | ||
| 071e6b4 | Though Rousseau writes about the General Will in terms of liberty, it is essentially an authoritarian instrument, an early adumbration of Lenin's 'democratic centralism'. Laws made under the General Will must, by definition, have moral authority. 'The people making laws for itself cannot be unjust.' 'The General Will is always righteous.' Moreover, provided the State is 'well-intentioned' (i.e., its long-term objectives are desirable) inter.. | Paul Johnson | ||
| b9acfa6 | The highly civilized apes swung gracefully from bough to bough; the Neanderthaler was uncouth and bound to the earth. The apes, saturated and playful, lived in sophisticated playfulness, or caught fleas in philosophic contemplation; the Neanderthaler trampled gloomily through the world, banging around with clubs. The apes looked down on him amusedly from their tree tops and threw nuts at him. Sometimes horror seized them: they ate fruits an.. | John Nicholas Gray | ||
| 5108dbb | For the anthropomorphic view of the rat, American psychology substituted a rattomorphic view of man. --Arthur Koestler, The Act of Creation | Alfie Kohn | ||
| af708fc | If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that he has been afflicted by some builtin mental disorder which drives him toward self-destruction." --Arthur Koestler" | Will Tuttle | ||
| 72e0fb7 | oi politophulakes pou me phulagan, emoiazan polu dusarestemenoi ap'ole aute ten katastase. ose ora basanizan sto diplano domatio, me parakolouthousan m'endiapheron gia na doune pos antidrousa, isos akome kai me oikto. otan pherane piso to trito thuma, nekro e lipothumo, o gerontoteros ap'tous duo politophulakes mou erixe ena blemma, sekonontas tous omous se mia uposuneidete kineses suggnomes. se aute ten kinese briskotan oloklero to noema t.. | Arthur Koestler | ||
| 1c82ddc | In Germany, Martin Heidegger turned against his former mentor Edmund Husserl, but later Heidegger's friends and colleagues turned their backs on him. In France, Gabriel Marcel attacked Jean-Paul Sartre, Sartre fell out with Camus, Camus fell out with Merleau-Ponty, Merleau-Ponty fell out with Sartre, and the Hungarian intellectual Arthur Koestler fell out with everyone and punched Camus in the street. | Sarah Bakewell | ||
| 53f0daf | To know me you have to fly with me. Up In the Air, Walter Kirn, 2001 | Hans Bauer | ||
| f056e9d | Is it possible to be wiser on the page than you are in life? I'm hoping so. | Walter Kirn |