aphorisms & quotes & statements
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The two from C.S. Lewis have been resonating with me a lot as I long for less... interesting times.
"When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."
"The pain now is part of the happiness then. That's the deal."
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"I don't know what I'm doing, but my incompetence has never stopped my enthusiasm."
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"What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice."
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@nuvolor said in aphorisms & quotes & statements:
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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@Ryszard I knew I was taking a risk . But is it possible to divide the man from the artist?
I mean: can a despicable being, a man with whom I have nothing to do with be a sublime artist?
does it make sense, as users of art, to be conditioned in this sense?
I don't think so.
Caravaggio was a murderer: a murderer...
however fearful, contradictory, disturbing and “problematic” it may be, I think it is a fact that even the most abject being can create sublime art.
in any case, if this quote (or WHO said it) has aroused discomfort and embarrassment instead of pleasure and reflection, I apologize and will delete it immediately.
It really was not my intention to hurt anyone's sensibilities!
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@nuvolor
I did not write - delete. But I think it is necessary to know what views the collaborator you quoted had.Alicja Bartuś: Snując proste opowieści o narodach bez skazy, rozmyliśmy i zaciemniliśmy to, co odróżnia kolaborantów od sprawiedliwych. Ku swojej zgubie.
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"To be aware, however, the machine should feel. Instead, its sensory capacity stops at the electrical signals, and from those signals it can generate other symbols to cause some response, some action, but no feelings are possible between the symbolic recognition and the programmed action. We could say that there is darkness inside a machine, but it would only be a “poetic” statement because the concept of “inside” doesn’t exist for a machine. It is consciousness that creates the interiority we experience." (Federico Faggin)
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Survival of the fittest not strongest
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“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”
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Nietzsche asking the hard questions:
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@barbudo2005 said in aphorisms & quotes & statements:
Nietzsche asking the hard questions:
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Nietzsche wrote in English? Curiosity.
An entire aphorism/quote derived from Die fröhliche Wissenschaft in the 19th century translation by Leopold Staff:
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Historya każdego dnia. - Co tworzy u ciebie historyę każdego dnia? Przypatrz się swoim, nawyknieniom, z których się ona składa: czy są one wytworem niezliczonych drobnych tchórzostw i lenistw, czy też twej waleczności i wynalazczego rozumu? jakkolwiek różne są oba wypadki: byłoby możliwem, że ludzie udzieliliby ci jednakiej pochwały i że też rzeczywiście przyniósłbyś im, tak czy tak, jednaki pożytek. Jednak pochwała i pożytek i poważanie mogą wystarczyć temu, kto chce mieć tylko czyste sumienie, - lecz nie tobie badaczu nerek, który przeniknąłeś sumienie. -
“A fool always finds a greater fool who admires him”
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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"In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable; and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality."
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“A demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be false, to people he knows to be idiots.”
Henry Louis Mencken
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"There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry... There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors. Our political life is also predicated on openness. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it and that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. And we know that as long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost, and science can never regress."
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@barbudo2005 said in aphorisms & quotes & statements:
With that blue arrow, are you indicating his nose, glasses or liar's eyes?
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