Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'works' and 'Cosmic Apprentice'

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5 ideas

1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 3. Scientism

16567

Scientists know everything about nothing, philosophers nothing about everything [Sagan,D]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / d. Non-being

18933

Not-Being obviously doesn't exist, and the five modes of Being are all impossible [Gorgias, by Diog. Laertius]

19. Language / F. Communication / 1. Rhetoric

5864	Destroy seriousness with laughter, and laughter with seriousness [Gorgias]

9866	Gorgias says rhetoric is the best of arts, because it enslaves without using force [Gorgias, by Plato]

22. Metaethics / A. Ethics Foundations / 2. Source of Ethics / e. Human nature

22086

The most important aspect of a human being is not reason, but passion [Kierkegaard, by Carlisle]