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The 'switch' should reason be dominated by the passions, or should reason itself become a passion dominating all the others derails the train. We do n...
October 25, 2015 at 15:55
Sorry, Heathcliff, Hamlet and the Don are just to far back in memory -- can't pry them out.
October 25, 2015 at 06:28
"...minimized suffering, and maximized joy, a way of life founded and constrained by reason..." Sounds... 'reasonable'. Is the way to minimized suffer...
October 25, 2015 at 06:25
Languages have histories, and history has history, and it all bears evidence of the users' history. Some people, Henry Ford for instance, think histor...
October 24, 2015 at 15:29
Maybe the "philosopher with busted arm" icon? Something iconic, at any rate. A phoenix (out of the ashes... no, too specific and temporal...)
October 24, 2015 at 14:51
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October 24, 2015 at 04:56
Have you read Simone Weil? (It's been so long, I remember nothing about her... It seems to me that she chose to ally herself with atheists as a witnes...
October 24, 2015 at 04:26
Lime offers no defense for himself. This year Turing Pharmaceuticals bought a 60 year old but still sometimes critical anti-parasitic drug that previo...
October 24, 2015 at 04:18
So having debated with yourself, where did it leave you all? @"Thorongil" "It is a long way from the grudging admission that God is a cipher for the i...
October 24, 2015 at 01:06
How about the difference between "know" and "suspect"? Teacher: "You don't know anything, Yogi" Yogi Berra: "I don't even suspect." Urbain Le Verrier ...
October 24, 2015 at 00:54
I thought he had been active for... a year or two, maybe?
October 23, 2015 at 23:56
Everything begins in mysticism and ends in politics. (Charles Peguy.) He also noted that "Tyranny is always better organized than freedom."
October 23, 2015 at 21:55
I would have been very very surprised if AFSCME had endorsed Bernie Sanders. Perhaps some locals have been a dash of red sauce, but most of them are r...
October 23, 2015 at 21:49
Perhaps the Panhandler In Chief should have a tin cup as an avatar? /uploads/files/3l/reuqgpq16xlqr1cf.png
October 23, 2015 at 21:15
Sometimes one can see a nice historical progression in art, sometimes not. I used to think "Modern Art" was stuff that had been painted since WWII. I ...
October 23, 2015 at 21:04
Claude Monet, Impression, soleil levant/uploads/resized/files/ym/u5inmh6uekxeps1q.jpg The term, "impressionism" was initially used satirically in a re...
October 23, 2015 at 20:29
In the future our refrigerators will, no doubt, be sexed up, and people will be as attached to their AI sex-bots as they are now glued to their smartp...
October 23, 2015 at 17:58
To draw a comparison in music: I listen to a lot of baroque music. the Bachs, Buxtehudes, et al. Sometimes at concerts I will doze off, waking up for ...
October 23, 2015 at 17:40
Back in my nights-at-the-gay-bars era I used to consider a good, conversation over beer just about as good as finding a hot trick to go home with. Eve...
October 23, 2015 at 16:40