Kafka comes to mind too. Einstein as well.
-
-
-
Engels.
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
It’s one of the reasons we should take seriously philosophical writing by people like Ray Dalio (on first principles thinking), Ted Kaczynski (on criticism of techno utopianism), and Mark Zuckerberg (on free speech) even if it seems a little cringe in the moment.
-
By “take seriously” I mean “judge on their merits” as opposed to discounting them because, whatever else we think about them, they’re not the sort of minds we’d expect this kind of thinking to come from.
- Show replies
New conversation -
-
-
Are you re-reading Will Durant by any chance? :)
-
"Only the young men can live in the future and only the old can live in the past; Men were most of them forced to live in the present, and the present was a ruin. Europe had a terrible headache in 1815."https://youtu.be/Rb-M29FF1bg
End of conversation
New conversation -
-
-
IIRC poor spinoza later suffered from a lung condition due to inhalation of the glass particulate for so many years...
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
-
Loading seems to be taking a while.
Twitter may be over capacity or experiencing a momentary hiccup. Try again or visit Twitter Status for more information.