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Enjoyment and possession
are primarily a matter of imagination.Montaigne ~ Essays III 9
I'll See You In My Dreams
https://youtu.be/PlmlDoDIJMU?si=PW1FX6FWqqkNqWLEPhoto niphisi
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Enjoyment and possession
are primarily a matter of imagination.Montaigne ~ Essays III 9
I'll See You In My Dreams
https://youtu.be/PlmlDoDIJMU?si=PW1FX6FWqqkNqWLEPhoto niphisi
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Enjoyment and possession
are primarily a matter of imagination.Montaigne ~ Essays III 9
I'll See You In My Dreams
https://youtu.be/PlmlDoDIJMU?si=PW1FX6FWqqkNqWLEPhoto niphisi
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Enjoyment and possession
are primarily a matter of imagination.Montaigne ~ Essays III 9
I'll See You In My Dreams
https://youtu.be/PlmlDoDIJMU?si=PW1FX6FWqqkNqWLEPhoto niphisi
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Enjoyment and possession
are primarily a matter of imagination.Montaigne ~ Essays III 9
I'll See You In My Dreams
https://youtu.be/PlmlDoDIJMU?si=PW1FX6FWqqkNqWLEPhoto niphisi
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...nous ne voulons
rien librement,
rien absoluëment,
rien constamment.Montaigne ~ Essais II I
Artur Paredes ~ Variações em Mi menor
https://youtu.be/OLMUSuo5FeY?si=_fbhvS67t3RQMpc4Photo Mue Studio
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...nous ne voulons
rien librement,
rien absoluëment,
rien constamment.Montaigne ~ Essais II I
Artur Paredes ~ Variações em Mi menor
https://youtu.be/OLMUSuo5FeY?si=_fbhvS67t3RQMpc4Photo Mue Studio
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...nous ne voulons
rien librement,
rien absoluëment,
rien constamment.Montaigne ~ Essais II I
Artur Paredes ~ Variações em Mi menor
https://youtu.be/OLMUSuo5FeY?si=_fbhvS67t3RQMpc4Photo Mue Studio
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...nous ne voulons
rien librement,
rien absoluëment,
rien constamment.Montaigne ~ Essais II I
Artur Paredes ~ Variações em Mi menor
https://youtu.be/OLMUSuo5FeY?si=_fbhvS67t3RQMpc4Photo Mue Studio
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...nous ne voulons
rien librement,
rien absoluëment,
rien constamment.Montaigne ~ Essais II I
Artur Paredes ~ Variações em Mi menor
https://youtu.be/OLMUSuo5FeY?si=_fbhvS67t3RQMpc4Photo Mue Studio
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#newbook #fsu #filosofiaescienzeumane
Michel de #Montaigne ci lasciò esattamente 434 anni fa. La sua opera più celebre, i #Saggi, è un viaggio itinerante attraverso le molteplici sfaccettature dell’essere umano, tanto “ondeggiante e vario” da non smettere mai di #meravigliare 🌊
Nel suo volume, Montaleone lo ripercorre cercando di ricostruire il #pensiero del #filosofo su #amore, #politica e #conoscenza 🔎Link in #OpenAccess: 📖 https://libri.unimi.it/index.php/fsu/it/catalog/book/324?mtm_campaign=mastodon
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#newbook #fsu #filosofiaescienzeumane
Michel de #Montaigne ci lasciò esattamente 434 anni fa. La sua opera più celebre, i #Saggi, è un viaggio itinerante attraverso le molteplici sfaccettature dell’essere umano, tanto “ondeggiante e vario” da non smettere mai di #meravigliare 🌊
Nel suo volume, Montaleone lo ripercorre cercando di ricostruire il #pensiero del #filosofo su #amore, #politica e #conoscenza 🔎Link in #OpenAccess: 📖 https://libri.unimi.it/index.php/fsu/it/catalog/book/324?mtm_campaign=mastodon
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#newbook #fsu #filosofiaescienzeumane
Michel de #Montaigne ci lasciò esattamente 434 anni fa. La sua opera più celebre, i #Saggi, è un viaggio itinerante attraverso le molteplici sfaccettature dell’essere umano, tanto “ondeggiante e vario” da non smettere mai di #meravigliare 🌊
Nel suo volume, Montaleone lo ripercorre cercando di ricostruire il #pensiero del #filosofo su #amore, #politica e #conoscenza 🔎Link in #OpenAccess: 📖 https://libri.unimi.it/index.php/fsu/it/catalog/book/324?mtm_campaign=mastodon
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#newbook #fsu #filosofiaescienzeumane
Michel de #Montaigne ci lasciò esattamente 434 anni fa. La sua opera più celebre, i #Saggi, è un viaggio itinerante attraverso le molteplici sfaccettature dell’essere umano, tanto “ondeggiante e vario” da non smettere mai di #meravigliare 🌊
Nel suo volume, Montaleone lo ripercorre cercando di ricostruire il #pensiero del #filosofo su #amore, #politica e #conoscenza 🔎Link in #OpenAccess: 📖 https://libri.unimi.it/index.php/fsu/it/catalog/book/324?mtm_campaign=mastodon
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#newbook #fsu #filosofiaescienzeumane
Michel de #Montaigne ci lasciò esattamente 434 anni fa. La sua opera più celebre, i #Saggi, è un viaggio itinerante attraverso le molteplici sfaccettature dell’essere umano, tanto “ondeggiante e vario” da non smettere mai di #meravigliare 🌊
Nel suo volume, Montaleone lo ripercorre cercando di ricostruire il #pensiero del #filosofo su #amore, #politica e #conoscenza 🔎Link in #OpenAccess: 📖 https://libri.unimi.it/index.php/fsu/it/catalog/book/324?mtm_campaign=mastodon
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“I highly recommend 24 Hours in the Life of a Woman, and Chess as starting points. #Zweig also had a knack for mini-biographies (see, for example, his stellar #book on #Montaigne)” #StefanZweig #BookSky open.substack.com/pub/tedgioia...
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He who does not give himself leisure to be thirsty cannot take pleasure in drinking.
[Qui ne se donne loisir d’avoir soif, ne sçauroit prendre plaisir à boire.]Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 1, ch. 42 (1.42), “Of the Inequality among Us [De l’inequalité qui est entre nous]” (1572) [tr. Frame (1943)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #desire #drinking #enjoyment #glut #lack #pleasure #satiety #satisfaction #surfeit #want
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And certainly a wise man never loses anything if he has himself.
[Certes l’homme d’entendement n’a rien perdu, s’il a soy-mesme.]Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 1, ch. 38 (1.38)), “Of Solitude [De la solitude]” (1572) [tr. Cotton/Hazlitt (1877)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #loss #possessions #selfaffirmation #selfassurance #selfawareness #selfesteem #selfpossession #selfregard #selfreliance #selfrespect #selfsufficiency #understanding #wisdom #integrity #importance #value
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The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom; every one, having an inward veneration for the opinions and manners approved and received among his own people, cannot, without very great reluctance, depart from them, nor apply himself to them without applause.
[Les loix de la conscience, que nous disons naistre de nature, naissent de la coustume : chacun ayant en veneration interne les opinions & mœurs approuvees & receues autour de luy, ne s’en peut desprendre sans remors, ny s’y appliquer sans applaudissement.]Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 1, ch. 22 (1.22), “Of Custom and Not Easily Changing an Accepted Law [De la Coustume et de Ne Changer Aisément une Loy Receüe]” (1572) [tr. Cotton/Hazlitt (1877)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #behavior #conscience #custom #manners #moralcode #morality #mores #naturallaw #nature #publicopinion #tradition
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Ist Freundschaft nicht eine vollwertige Beziehung, bloß ohne das körperliche halt, oder gibt es da einfach Abstufungen? Ist es ein fluides Spektrum irgendwo zwischen zufälligem Treffen, Bekanntschaft und bestem Freund dem ich meine dunkelsten Geheimnisse anvertraue? Natürlich ist es das. Freundschaften muss man gar nicht unbedingt genau definieren, entweder sie gibt einem ein positives […]
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“Conspiracy theories also bring another reward: power.”*…
Theophilus Schweighardt, The Temple of the Rose Cross, 1618 (source)Barrett Brown interrogates our fascination with conspiracies and conspiracy theories…
Over a period of several years in the early seventeenth century, there appeared in Western Europe three manifestos laying out the history of the theretofore unheard-of Rosicrucian order, whose secret directorate was said to employ powerful magical-scientific techniques in service to sociopolitical reform. This naturally led to quite a bit of public speculation, which gradually abated in the absence of further pronouncements; within a few generations the only parties ascribing any significance to the incident tended to be dubious characters claiming to be Rosicrucians themselves, rarely with much to show for it. Thus, as a result of its gradual association with cranks, the Rosicrucian story developed a kind of inoculation against serious scrutiny.
It wasn’t until the sixties that the British historian Dame Frances A. Yates breached the actual nature and extent of the thought movement that informed both the manifestos and its audience. In her book The Rosicrucian Enlightenment, she demonstrates that the texts were written as anti-Hapsburg, proreformist propaganda drawing on doctrines associated with the sixteenth-century philosopher Francis Bacon, and that this was understood by commentators on both sides; that the surreal “alchemical wedding” described therein references the 1613 marriage of England’s Elizabeth Stuart and Frederick V of the Palatinate, widely heralded as the linchpin of a proto-Protestant alliance capable of establishing such reform by force; that the broader proposals were indeed taken seriously by scholars, not as scripture but rather as a set of visionary policy proposals dressed in metaphor, akin to Bacon’s The New Atlantis; and that enthusiasts such as Elias Ashmole would directly implement those proposals by founding the Royal Society, establishing the primacy of science. Rather than being a footnote to premodern folly, the Rosicrucian affair turns out to sit at the narrative center of the modern world.
There’s a lesson here that bears attention today, at the apparent twilight of the same modern world, when the fundamental problem we face involves the degree to which the truth must now compete with such a vast multiplicity of falsehoods that discovering truth itself becomes unviable. Consider that so much of consequence to our own heritage should have been so misunderstood for as long as the Rosicrucian manifestos; it seems that crucial facts can be effectively concealed from serious attention simply by being visibly subject to the unserious sort. Such facts are gradually imbued with a sort of de facto defense mechanism against scrutiny, whereby the mere act of taking an interest in them serves to discredit professional researchers and journalists…
From the 1600s to recent history and the insights of Umberto Eco, what’s going on– and why: “The Ur-“Conspiracy”: History of a Pseudoconcept,” from @parisreview.bsky.social.
Apposite: “Revisionist History — Aliens, Secrets and Conspiracies,” by Steve Blank
* “The emotional appeal of a conspiracy theory is in its simplicity. It explains away complex phenomena, accounts for chance and accidents, offers the believer the satisfying sense of having special, privileged access to the truth. For those who become the one-party state’s gatekeepers, the repetition of these conspiracy theories also brings another reward: power.” – Anne Applebaum, Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism
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As we ponder perspicacity, we might we send inquisitive birthday greetings to Michel Eyquem de Montaigne; he was born on this date in 1533. Best known during his lifetime as a statesman, Montaigne is remembered for popularizing the essay as a literary form. His massive volume Essais (translated literally as “Attempts” or “Trials”)– contain what are, to this day, some of the most widely-influential essays ever written. Montaigne had a powerful impact on writers ever after, from Descartes, Pascal, and Rousseau through Hazlitt, Emerson, and Nietzsche, to Zweig, Hoffer, and Asimov. Indeed, he’s believed to have been an influence on the later works of Shakespeare.
And while he pre-dates the “Rosicrucian” publications mentioned above, he observed (in Essais) “the truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.”
Lastly, a good reason to step outside and look up early this evening: “February’s ‘rare planetary alignment’ is coming — here’s what to expect from the planet parade“
#Aliens #BarrettBrown #conspiracy #conspiracyTheories #conspiracyTheory #culture #essay #essays #history #literature #Montaigne #politics #secrets #SteveBlank -
The first sign of corrupt morals is the banishing of truth.
[Le premier traict de la corruption des mœurs, c’est le bannissement de la verité]Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 2, ch. 18 (2.18), “Of Giving the Lie [Du Démentir]” (1578–79) [tr. Screech (1987)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #corruption #culture #custom #debasing #dishonesty #lies #lying #manners #mendacity #morals #mores #society #truth #untruth
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A good marriage, if there are such, rejects the company and conditions of love; it strives to show forth those of friendship. It is a calm fellowship of life, full of fidelity, of trust, and of an endless number of useful and substantial mutual duties and obligations.
[Un bon mariage, s’il en est, refuse la compagnie & conditions de l’amour : il tasche à representer celles de l’amitié. C’est une douce societé de vie, pleine de constance, de fiance, & d’un nombre infiny d’utiles & solides offices, & obligations mutuelles.]Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 3, ch. 5 (3.5), “Of Some Verses of Virgil [Sur des vers de Virgile]” (1586) [tr. Ives (1925)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #assistance #duties #fellowship #fidelity #friendship #love #marriage #mutualrespect #mutualsupport #obligations #passion #trust
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A good marriage, if there are such, rejects the company and conditions of love; it strives to show forth those of friendship. It is a calm fellowship of life, full of fidelity, of trust, and of an endless number of useful and substantial mutual duties and obligations.
[Un bon mariage, s’il en est, refuse la compagnie & conditions de l’amour : il tasche à representer celles de l’amitié. C’est une douce societé de vie, pleine de constance, de fiance, & d’un nombre infiny d’utiles & solides offices, & obligations mutuelles.]Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 3, ch. 5 (3.5), “Of Some Verses of Virgil [Sur des vers de Virgile]” (1586) [tr. Ives (1925)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #assistance #duties #fellowship #fidelity #friendship #love #marriage #mutualrespect #mutualsupport #obligations #passion #trust
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A good marriage, if there are such, rejects the company and conditions of love; it strives to show forth those of friendship. It is a calm fellowship of life, full of fidelity, of trust, and of an endless number of useful and substantial mutual duties and obligations.
[Un bon mariage, s’il en est, refuse la compagnie & conditions de l’amour : il tasche à representer celles de l’amitié. C’est une douce societé de vie, pleine de constance, de fiance, & d’un nombre infiny d’utiles & solides offices, & obligations mutuelles.]Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 3, ch. 5 (3.5), “Of Some Verses of Virgil [Sur des vers de Virgile]” (1586) [tr. Ives (1925)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #assistance #duties #fellowship #fidelity #friendship #love #marriage #mutualrespect #mutualsupport #obligations #passion #trust
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A good marriage, if there are such, rejects the company and conditions of love; it strives to show forth those of friendship. It is a calm fellowship of life, full of fidelity, of trust, and of an endless number of useful and substantial mutual duties and obligations.
[Un bon mariage, s’il en est, refuse la compagnie & conditions de l’amour : il tasche à representer celles de l’amitié. C’est une douce societé de vie, pleine de constance, de fiance, & d’un nombre infiny d’utiles & solides offices, & obligations mutuelles.]Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 3, ch. 5 (3.5), “Of Some Verses of Virgil [Sur des vers de Virgile]” (1586) [tr. Ives (1925)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #assistance #duties #fellowship #fidelity #friendship #love #marriage #mutualrespect #mutualsupport #obligations #passion #trust
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The miser prays God for the vain and superfluous preservation of his hoard; the ambitious man, for success and the achievement of his desires; the thief uses God to help him overcome the dangers and difficulties which obstruct his nefarious designs or else thanks God when he finds it easy to slit the gizzard of some passer-by. At the foot of the mansion which they are about to climb into and blow up, men say their prayers, while their purposes and hopes are full of cruelty, lust, and greed.
[L’avaricieux le prie pour la conservation vaine & superflue de ses thresors : l’ambitieux pour ses victoires, & conduite de sa fortune : le voleur l’employe à son ayde, pour franchir le hazard & les difficultez, qui s’opposent à l’execution de ses meschantes entreprinses : ou le remercie de l’aisance qu’il a trouvé à desgosiller un passant. Au pied de la maison, qu’ils vont escheller ou petarder, ils font leurs prieres, l’intention & l’esperance pleine de cruauté, de luxure, & d’avarice.]Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 1, ch. 56 (1.56), “Of Prayers [Des prieres]” (1572-1580) [tr. Screech (1987)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #blessing #cause #cognitivedissonance #divineblessing #divineintervention #hypocrisy #intercession #magic #prayer #sin #unworthiness
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The miser prays God for the vain and superfluous preservation of his hoard; the ambitious man, for success and the achievement of his desires; the thief uses God to help him overcome the dangers and difficulties which obstruct his nefarious designs or else thanks God when he finds it easy to slit the gizzard of some passer-by. At the foot of the mansion which they are about to climb into and blow up, men say their prayers, while their purposes and hopes are full of cruelty, lust, and greed.
[L’avaricieux le prie pour la conservation vaine & superflue de ses thresors : l’ambitieux pour ses victoires, & conduite de sa fortune : le voleur l’employe à son ayde, pour franchir le hazard & les difficultez, qui s’opposent à l’execution de ses meschantes entreprinses : ou le remercie de l’aisance qu’il a trouvé à desgosiller un passant. Au pied de la maison, qu’ils vont escheller ou petarder, ils font leurs prieres, l’intention & l’esperance pleine de cruauté, de luxure, & d’avarice.]Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 1, ch. 56 (1.56), “Of Prayers [Des prieres]” (1572-1580) [tr. Screech (1987)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #micheldemontaigne #blessing #cause #cognitivedissonance #divineblessing #divineintervention #hypocrisy #intercession #magic #prayer #sin #unworthiness
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Life’s usefulness is not in its length, but in its use: some who have lived a long time have lived but little — take heed of it while you are still in it. For you to have lived enough lies in your will, not in the number of your years.
[L’utilité du vivre n’est pas en l’espace: elle est en l’usage. Tel a vescu long temps, qui a peu vescu. Attendez vous y pendant que vous y estes. Il gist en vostre volonté, non au nombre des ans, que vous ayez assez vescu.]Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 1, ch. 19 (1.19), “That to Philosophize Is to Learn to Die [Que Philosopher, c’est apprendre à mourir]” (1572-03) [tr. Atkinson/Sices (2012)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #fulfillment #fulllife #goodlife #life #lifespan #lifetime #living #mortality
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We must be content with the light that it may please the sun to shed upon us by his beams; and he who shall raise his eyes to bring a brighter beam into his very body, let him not think it strange if, for the punishment of his audacity, he thus lose his sight.
[Il se faut contenter de la lumiere qu’il plaist au Soleil nous communiquer par ses rayons, & qui eslevera ses yeux pour en prendre une plus grande dans son corps mesme, qu’il ne trouve pas estrange, si pour la peine de son outrecuidance il y perd la veuë.]Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essay (1572), “We Should Meddle Soberly with Judging Divine Ordinances [Qu’il faut sobrement se mesler de juger des ordonnances divines],” Essays, Book 1, ch. 31 (1.31) (1595) [tr. Ives (1925), 1.32]Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #montaigne #arrogance #audacity #discernment #divineplan #divinepunishment #divinewill #God #hubris #ineffability #mystery #presumption #pride #revelation #sun #understanding
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"Les changements de #mode sont en général guidés par la technologie : non seulement on ignore encore où l'imagerie cérébrale va nous mener, mais on sait encore moins ce que sera la technologie du #futur. Alors que c'est elle qui guidera la #psychologie."
cf #IA
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Here's a list of what I've been working on/thinking about for the last week. https://clerestory.netlify.app/work/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=20221129
Featuring #duBoisReymond #Kant #Graeber #Lucretius #Hesiod #Spinoza #Bacon #McGilchrist #Arendt #Geertz #Piaget #Einstein #Wertheimer #Solon #Confucius #Buddhism #complexity #Logos #Althusser #Nietzsche #Spinoza #Marx #Schopenhauer #Montaigne #Kuhn #Nagel #Pythagoras #Popper #Gödel and more!
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#Philosophy : #Nietzsche #Schopenhauer #Spinoza #Pyrrho #Pascal #Montaigne #Lucretius #Elias #Althusser #Jaynes #McGilchrist, and I'm also interested in #Darwin #Epicurus #Zhuangzi #Laozi #Taoism #Buddhism #Helmholtz
I studied #literature : #Thackeray #Tolstoy #GeorgeEliot #Strindberg #Celine #Dostoevsky #Pushkin #Chekhov #Rimbaud #HartCrane #ThomasHardy #DHLawrence
Also love #film : #Bergman #MichaelPowell #Ozu #Mizoguchi #Fellini #Cassavetes #Losey #Wilder #Bresson #Truffaut #Marker