The safest general charaterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
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- The accidents are characteristic of the system itself
- They have no criteria
- You can slide through time to a world which does n...
- His concern seems well-grounded
- Surprising lapses in the way we process the world
- We often turn out to be wrong, even with giant, cl...
- As societies modernize, they become less dependent...
- You see what you expect to see
- No bears in this house
- We think we believe what we know, but we only trul...
- Surprised by the dynamics of the emerging new system
- You have to trust that the dots will somehow conne...
- It contained the three words “but if not … ”
- The gradual eclipse of a single structure has led,...
- If the King’s English was good enough for Jesus Ch...
- Children constantly test and sample their environment
- People don’t come preassembled, but are glued toge...
- We are domestic pets of a human zoo we call civili...
- They establish habits that eliminate the mental ef...
- Under any orders we know how to give
- Risk homeostasis
- A 'mental model', of an expected universe
- What was the road by which we reached our position
- Aristotle on Education
- A series of footnotes to Plato
- People achieve an average of 54% correct lie-truth...
- Begin at the beginning, and do not allow yourself ...
- A complex, coupled, self-organizing, chaotic system
- The belief that a good part of predicting the futu...
- Exercising his independent judgment
- For who so firm that cannot be seduced?
- Freedom from coercion versus freedom through coercion
- No longer convey the same conviction
- Any argument requires premises that it assumes and...
- Persusasive Arguments vs. Good Arguments
- Mirrored values
- To see all others faults, and feel our own
- Rich countries are largely rich because of the ski...
- A certain quantity of labour stocked and stored up
- We can pay our debts to the past
- The one prudence in life is concentration; the one...
- Everyone is equal before the law
- Once invented, it cannot be improved
- By wise counsels and daring deeds
- A little learning is a dangerous thing
- The art of being a slave is to rule one's master
- Economics and labor
- Only 5% of students believe teachers know what boo...
- Something of the bloody determination that made gr...
- The earliest signs of literacy
- Incorrigble sottishness
- If the seventy books of Democritus had survived . . .
- How to live together in peace and freedom
- Excited at the moment . . . my warmest admiration
- Liberalism and science are methods, not ideologies
- Empathy is instead a delicate cocktail
- The cost of early selfishness is greater than the ...
- Visualizing Proverbs
- These are the right questions to ask
- We train for certainty and educate for uncertainty
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- Charles
- A family man, a management consultant, a book seller and an avid reader. Committed to helping children become avid readers in turn. The great chain of reading always needs renewing.
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