It would hardly be a waste of time if sometimes even the most advanced students in the cognitive sciences were to pay a visit to their ancestors. It is frequently claimed in American philosophy depart...
Luckily, Eden is soon populated. The ethical dimension begins when the other appears on the scene.
Es inútil, ya no tenemos la sabiduría de los antiguos, ¡se acabó la época de los gigantes!-Somos enanos -admitió Guillermo-, pero enanos subidos a los hombros de aquellos gigantes, y, aunque pequeños,...
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تفكّرتُ في مقولةٍ نُسِبَت إلى مديرِ أوركسترا ، عُرِف بلسانه اللاذع ، متحدِّثًا عن عازف «فلان في جنسِهِ عظيم ، فلان مِن جنسِ القذارة»
Както отявленият атеист, който вижда нощем дявола и безбожнически разсъждава така: Той безспорно не съществува, сигурно е от храносмилането, но рогатият не го знае и си вярва в своята преобърната теол...
Значит, если я правильно понимаю, вы можете действовать и знаете, почему вы действуете, но вы не знаете, почему вы знаете, что вы знаете, как вам действовать?
Κύριε, να είστε περήφανος: σήμερα αγγίξατε έναν ωραιότατο θάνατο, και στο μέλλον να συμπεριφερθείτε με την ίδια αδιαφορία, ξέροντας ότι η ψυχή πεθαίνει μαζί με το κορμί. Κι επομένως, να πηγαίνετε στο...
The singularity of the point of suspension, the duality of the plane's dimensions, the triadic beginning of pi, the secret quadratic nature of the root, and the unnumbered perfection of the circle its...
Enanos —admitió Guillermo—, pero enanos subidos sobre los hombros de aquellos gigantes y, aunque pequeños, a veces logramos ver más allá de su horizonte.
As Boethius says, nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn; and what would be the point of saying today that the...
When nature fails, we turn to art.
We'll have to consult Aglie. I doubt that even he knows all these organizations.Want to bet? They're his daily bread. But we can put him to the test. Let's add a sect that doesn't exist. Founded recen...
They’re still there, Salon said. Not in Agarttha, but in tunnels. Perhaps beneath us, right here. Milan, too, has a metro. Who decided on it? Who directed the excavations? Expert engineers, I’d say. Y...
There, Master Niketas,’ Baudolino said, ‘when I was not prey to the temptations of this world, I devoted my nights to imagining other worlds. A bit with the help of wine, and a bit with that of the gr...
There, I said to myself, are the reasons for the silence and darkness that surround the library: it is the preserve of learning but can maintain this learning unsullied only if it prevents its reachin...
There are words that give power, others that make us all the more derelict,
There are four kinds of people in this world: cretins, fools, morons, and lunatics…Cretins don’t even talk; they sort of slobber and stumble…Fools are in great demand, especially on social occasions....
The book has to give the idea of another kind of newspaper, has to show how I labored away for a year to create a model of journalism independent of all pressure, implying that the venture failed beca...
The Jesuits’ strategy became clear to us when we discovered Father Barruel. Between 1797 and 1798, in response to the French Revolution, he writes his Mémoires pour servir à l’histoire du jacobinisme,...