voltaire would have been a better man if he had lifted
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rousseau invented emo and was so successful he never felt the need to dabble in other genres
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admittedly Nero was preeminently proto-emo
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Diderot's Encyclopedia was rationalwiki-tier seriously read it sometime
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Replying to @PereGrimmer @eigenrobot
An example I like in addition to this and Newton's alchemy (or general mysticism, bible deciphering) was Hobbes claiming to have squared the circle and spending his energy defending this claim. Euclid was more useful to him in political philosophy than in geometry, it seems.
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