June 2011
35 posts
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a...”
– Robert Heinlein (via refreshinglyconfident)
Quoting Robert Heinlein? Serious gold stars right there.
(via caterpillarcowboy)
“There are a lot of problems we currently face and many are in need of imminent...”
– Mohandas Gandhi (via azspot)
“The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and...”
– John Maynard Keynes, 1935 quoted in Fabulous Fables of Economics (via isomorphismes)
Style: The only news worth reading today →
washingtonpoststyle:
HOQUIAM, Wash. — Police say a Washington man who was holding a dead weasel when he assaulted his girlfriend’s ex-boyfriend was actually yielding a mink carcass.
Hoquiam police said the 33-year-old man had the dead animal with him when he went to the other man’s apartment looking for his…
Mathematical Poetics: Things money can't buy →
isomorphismes:
Money can’t make you a better writer.
Money can’t buy imagination.
Money can’t buy time. (Or at least, your lifetime only extends by a few percent given an expenditure of tens of thousands of dollars. And money plus knowing how to manage people can buy you someone else’s labour time. plus…
“It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us...”
– Gandalf (via fuckyeahlordoftherings)
“As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best...”
– Benjamin Disraeli (via jyhslibrary)
Some Philosophy
Epistemology- The Philosophical study of knowledge.
-asks the questions
-What is knowledge?
-What is truth?
-How do we know what we know?
-Among other things.
Two schools specifically
-Rationalism
Rationalism was developed by Rene Descartes.
-Descartes was a man who wanted to create a framework to separate what we know from everything else.
-To do this, Descartes developed...
“There is one great thing that you men will all be able to say after this war is...”
– General George S. Patton Jr. addressing his men
June 5th 1944
(via greatestgeneration)
