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“The narcissism of small differences.’ That’s a phrase coined by Freud. ‘Der Narzissmus der kleinen Differenzen.’
It means, I think, that when two things are very similar, you end up inflating the small differences between them far more than you would the larger differences between two less similar things”
thought about that which everybody sees. Arthur Schopenhauer
Mikael Krogerus • The Decision Book: Fifty Models for Strategic Thinking (Fully Revised Edition)
Besides language, the child has to accept many other forms of code. For the necessities of living together require agreement as to codes of law and ethics, of etiquette and art, of weights, measures, and numbers, and, above all, of role. We have difficulty in communicating with each other unless we can identify ourselves in terms of roles–father, t
... See moreAlan W. Watts • The Way of Zen
But because it is the use and nature of words and thoughts to be fixed, definite, isolated, it is extremely hard to describe the most important characteristic of life—its movement and fluidity.
Alan W. Watts • The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
the eighteenth-century philosopher Giambattista Vico: Verum ipsum factum. Translated to English, it means “We only know what we make.”
Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organise Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
to use Spinoza's phraseology, the child is learning to see the things and persons about it sub specie aeternitatis,--as particular manifestations of universal law.
Arthur Schopenhauer • The Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics)
Wittgenstein devoted his philosophical energies largely to identifying and combating what he regarded as insidiously disruptive forms of “nonsense.” He was apparently like that in his personal life as well.
Harry G. Frankfurt • On Bullshit
we humans can see that the Gödel statement is in fact true, but because of Gödel’s result, we also know that the system’s rules can’t prove it—the system is in effect blind to something not covered by its rules.4 Truth and provability pull apart. Perhaps mind and machine do, as well. The purely formal system has limits, at any rate. It cannot prove
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