- Pierre (Peter) Abelard
- • Logic has made me hated by the world.
- • Language is generated by the intellect and generates the intellect.
Abelard of Le Pallet,
introduction
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Aristotle
- There is nothing in the intellect that was not before in the senses
nihil in intellectu quod non prius fuerit in sensu
The Turing test and intelligence
[5]
James M. Barrie (1860–1937)- The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story,
and writes another.
Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832)- “The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation
of morals and legislation.”
Fascism
is socialism [2]
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- Bernard of Clairvaux, to Abelard
- • You will find something more in the woods than in books. Woods
and stones will teach you what you cannot hear from the ‘masters’
“Logic has
made me hated among men”: Abelard of Le Pallet on theology [8]
Bernard of Chartres [d.
circa 1130]
- • We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that
we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not
by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical
distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by
their giant size.
The Turing test and intelligence
[1]
Clint Black (1962 - )
- You can wave your signs in protest
against America taking stands.
The stands America’s taken
are the reason that you can.
[From Iraq
and roll]
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- Robert Bolt,
Man for All Seasons
- When a man takes an oath, Meg, he’s holding his ownself in his
own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then – he needn’t
hope to find himself again.
—
Margaret: “Father, the man is bad.”
More: “There’s no law against that.”
Roper: “There is a law against it. God’s law.”
More: “Then God can arrest him.”
Roper: “Sophistication upon sophistication!”
More: “No. Sheer simplicity. The law, Roper, the law. I know what’s
legal, but I don't always know what’s right. And I'm sticking
with what’s legal.
Roper: “Then you set man’s law against God’s?”
More: “No. Far below. But let me draw your attention to a fact.
I am not God. The currents and eddies of right and wrong, which you
find such plain sailing, I can't navigate. I'm no voyager. But in the
thickets of the law, there I am a forester. I doubt if there’s
a man alive who could follow me there, thank God.”
Alice: “While you talk, he is gone.”
More: “And go he should, if he was the Devil himself, until he
broke the law.”
Roper: “So now you'd give the Devil the benefit of law!”
More: “Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law
to get to the Devil?”
Roper: “I'd cut down every law in England to do that!”
More: “Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned
round on you -- where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat.
This country’s planted thick with laws from coast to coast --
man’s laws, not God’s -- and if you cut them down -- and
you're just the man to do it -- do you really think you could stand
upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit
of the law, for my own safety’s sake.”
Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik- I only think well when my mind is calm
why Aristotelian
logic does not work [6]
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797) [attributed]- All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good people
do nothing
-
D. Buss
- the romantic fallacy: "I don't want people to be like that, therefore
they are not like that.
quote from Limbic
Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) 1832–98
English writer and logician- “There’s glory for you!”
“ I don’t know what you mean by ‘glory’,”
Alice said.
“I meant, ‘there’s a nice knock-down argument for
you!’ ”
“ ‘But‘glory’ doesn’t mean‘there’s
a nice knock-down argument’”, Alice objected.
“ When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful
tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more
nor less.”
“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make
words mean so many different things.”
“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to
be master—that’s all.”
Through
the Looking-Glass (1872), chapter 6
- G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
- “It’s drowning all your old rationalism and scepticism,
it’s coming in like a sea; and the name of it is superstition.”
[The Oracle of the Dog, in The Incredulity of Fatther
Brown]
Or, as Cammaerts paraphrases it:
“The first effect of not believing in God is to believe in anything.”
-
- Winston Churchill (1874
- 1965)
- The mood and temper of the public in regard to the treatment of crime
and criminals is one of the most unfailing tests of the civilisation
of any country. [1910]
M.T. Clanchy’s
book opens: - Peter Abelard, now forgotten, was once the most famous man in the
world.
Jean Baptiste Colvert [finance minister of
Louis XIV, 16th - 17th century]- The objective is to pluck the geese in such a manner as to obtain
the greatest number of feathers with the least amount of hissing
The mechanics of inflation:
the great government swindle and how it works
Thomas Alva Edison (1847 – 1931)- Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration’
Said circa 1903, in Harper’s Monthly Magazine,
September 1932 (Source: Oxford Dictionary of Quotations).
However, I think Nesbit, a popular Victorian writer on self improvement,
pre-dates this.
From
a song with words by Dorothy Fields, music
by Jerome Kern, 1936- Pick yourself up, dust yourself down and start all over again
Drugs, smoking and addiction
[3]
Fridugisus, 9th century- This nothing is a very important something, since it is that out of
which god created everything’.
why Aristotelian
logic does not work [18]
Etienne Gilson [1884 - 1978], Being
and Some Philosophers, p. 52-
- Religion has its own work, which is to educate people who are too
dull to understand philosophy, or too untutored to be amenable to its
teaching. This is why religion is necessary, for what it preaches is
fundamentally the same as what philosophy teaches, and, unless common
men believed what it preaches, they would behave like beasts. But theologians
should preach, not teach, just as philosophers should teach, not preach.
Theologians should not attempt to demonstrate, because they cannot do
it, and philosophers must be careful not to get belief mixed up with
what they prove, because then they can no longer prove anything. Now,
to preach creation is just a handy way to make people feel that God
is their Master, which is true even though, as is well known by those
who truly philosophize, nothing of the sort ever happened.
-
-
-
- Garrett James Hardin (1915 - 2003)
- Ecology is the overall science of which economics is a minor speciality
Source:
Hardin obituary on this page.
Hardin
website
- Heloise
- • The name of mistress instead of wife would be dearer and
more honourable for me, only love given freely, rather than the constriction
of the marriage tie, is of significance to an ideal relationship.
• God is my witness that if Augustus, emperor of the whole world,
thought fit to honour me with marriage and conferred all the earth upon
me to possess for ever, it would be dearer and more honourable to me
to be called not his empress but your whore.
Abelard of Le Pallet,
introduction
Heraclitus- You cannot step into the same river twice
why Aristotelian logic
does not work
Adolph Hitler- • What luck for the rulers that men do not think
The psychology and
development of Adolph Hitler Schicklgruber
• There are many more quotations taken
from Hitler’s writing and speeches collected together at
Did Hitler know about the holocaust?
A psychological assessment.
Thomas Hobbes- During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in
awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war
as is of every man against every man.”
Power, ownership and freedom
[8]
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)- • All men are created equal” Why
Aristotelian logic does not work
• The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with
the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.[1787]
Kelvin- Science begins when you can measure what you are talking about and
express it in numbers
why Aristotelian
logic does not work [21]
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