Robert Frost

 

17 Equations

 

Mountain Zen

 

Gandalf

 

Another Paradox

 

Bertrand Russell

 

Learn from Trump

 

42

 

James Baldwin

 

Paradox Tolerance

 

Proud?

 

Money can't buy

 

Dostoyevsky

 

Anais

 

To laugh often

 

 

"To laugh often;

to win the admiration of intelligent people

and the affection of children;

to earn the respect of honest critics

and endure the betrayal of false friends;

to apprehend beauty;

to find the best in others;

to leave this world a bit better

whether by a healthy child,

a garden patch

or a redeemed social condition;

to know that even one life

has breathed easier

because you have lived

that is said to have been successful.”

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Relativity

 

Suzuki

 

Cronkite

 

To Be or Not To Be

 

Miranda Marrott

 

Darwin

 

Hannah Arendt

 

Cultural Regions

 

Habbah

 

 

Socrates, the greatest philosopher of all time, was actually the most hated man in Athens. He was accused of cruelty and corruption of youth. The popular court, the Eliea, condemned him to death: and Socrates,  one of the most brilliant minds in history, died drinking hemlock. But why all this? Socrates apparently wasn't doing anything dangerous. He simply asked questions, spoke to anyone: with nobles, with common citizens, with young people. But his questions, in their frankness, in their simplicity demolished the certainties of his interlocutors, forcing them to confront the emptiness of their own certainties, with the incoherence of their reasoning. He taught us to doubt. Socrates was a character who was too uncomfortable with the doubts he inculcated. He had the audacity to expose corrupt politicians and false teachers who advocated false truths and false knowledge. For this he was sentenced to death. He was a threat to the status quo, a danger that needed to be eliminated. During the trial, Socrates did not want to repent or beg for mercy. He also refused to be assisted by a speaker. Intelligence is inconvenient, this is what the trial against Socrates teaches us. The masses want illusions and not truths; they want to be flattered and live happily in ignorance. Smart men are embarrassing. They are prohibited, ostracized, despised, because they disturb the sleep of the masses, question authority, reveal the deceptions of the institutions.

vonnegut

 

Like v. Love

 

Women Will

 

On Morals

 

Plato

 

Leo Tolstoy

 

Gore Vidal

 

Henry Wallace

 

Huxley

 

Aldous

 

Hemingway

 

Sanskrit

 

On Artiificial Intelligence

 

Jihn Fugelsang

 

Bertrand Russell

 

“All who are not lunatics are agreed about certain things. That it is better to be alive than dead, better to be adequately fed than starved, better to be free than a slave. Many people desire those things only for themselves and their friends; they are quite content that their enemies should suffer. These people can only be refuted by science: Humankind has become so much one family that we cannot ensure our own prosperity except by ensuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.“