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For a thousand problems

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Weeping at the beauty of Euclidean geometry and proposition 1.47

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When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property which with certainty separates the waking state from the dream. How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?

Meditations

Descartes

(Ref. http://www.richmond-philosophy.net/rjp/back_issues/rjp8_hill.pdf)

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Laura Marling & Johnny Flynn - The Water

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Irish Coffee

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There was nothing the ancient Greeks did not poke their noses into, no experience they shunned, no problem they did not attempt to solve. When the world was still young, they set off at the first light and returned early from the agora, their arms full and their carts loaded down with every purchase, domestic and foreign, natural and artificial, they could lay their hands on. Whatever we experience in our day, whatever we hope to learn, whatever we most desire, whatever we set out to find, we see that the Greeks have been there before us, and we meet them on their way back.

Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: Why the Greeks Matter by Thomas Cahill (via anagignosko)

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Entonces Bioy Casares recordó que uno de los heresiarcas de Uqbar había declarado que los espejos y la cópula son abominables, porque multiplican el número de los hombres…

J.L.B (via juancarlosescalante)

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http://silencedappreciation.tumblr.com/

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“Pienso que el libro es una de las posibilidades de felicidad que tenemos los hombres.”

- Jorge Luis Borges (via bellepetittresor)

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aporia, by jacques derrida.

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But that is naive Socrates!: In which hundreds of people misinterpret Plato and the Cave.

It was a really bad idea to look through the "Republic" tag hoping to read new and potentially enlightening interpretations of the dialogue. There are a lot of bronze souls reading philosophy, the majority of which complaining about how Plato is wrong, Socrates is wrong, and the arguments are stupid. In Book X when Socrates describes the "just and quiet man" who isn't a character in tragedy because the crowd isn't able to understand him, it's clear the crowd he is talking about is the hoi polloi on tumblr trying to read Plato.

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