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To sum up our contention so far, we may say that the most characteristic current philosophies have not only a touch of mania, but a touch of suicidal mania. The mere questioner has knocked his head against the limits of human thought; and cracked it.
G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton • Orthodoxy
Moreover, Civic Biology was a monstrously racist text, which ranked humanity in five categories of evolutionary development (with blacks at the bottom and whites at the top), advocated eugenic cleansing of the race, denounced intermarriage and the perpetuation of ‘degenerate’ stock and suggested ‘humane’ steps for the elimination of social ‘parasit
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Leyla Acaroglu • System Failures: The Education System and the Proliferation of Reductive Thinking
John Amos Comenius, a Moravian bishop of the seventeenth century, a self-styled pansophist and pedagogue, is rightly considered one of the founders of the modern school. He was among the first to propose seven or twelve grades of compulsory learning. In his Magna Didactica he described schools as devices to “teach everybody everything” and outlined
... See moreIvan Illich • Tools for Conviviality
FRANCISCANS, on the whole, were less impeccably orthodox than Dominicans. Between the two orders there was keen rivalry, and the Franciscans were not inclined to accept the authority of Saint Thomas. The three most important of Franciscan philosophers were Roger Bacon, Duns Scotus, and William of Occam.
Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
Carvalho’s background is unusual. Born in 1947, in his late teens he became an opponent of the military regime and by 1966 was a member of the Communist Party. After just two years Carvalho left the Communist Party and went to university to study psychology. In the early 1980s he wrote A imagem do homem na astrologia (The Image of Man in Astrology,
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trysunlight.aiFor these reasons, prices may pass statistical tests for randomness, but they are not themselves random (although it is plausible that their randomness is random, and that randomness is random, and so on) but rather are unpredictable on the basis of market data alone. They are, however, predictable to the extent that the predictor accurately assess
... See moreSacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
As Isaac Newton put it, after losing a fortune in the South Seas stock bubble: “I can calculate the movement of stars, but not the madness of men.”