Monday, February 22, 2010

squashed philosophers

Squashed philosophers: fast fun, not too misleading...


John Stuart MILL
"Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign."
On Liberty (1859)A System of Logic (1843)
Henry D THOREAU
"It is never too late to give up our prejudices.."
Walden (1854)
Charles DARWIN
"...endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved."
On The Origin of Species(1859)
Friedrich NIETZSCHE
"When you stare into an abyss ... the abyss also stares into you".
Beyond Good and Evil (1886)
William JAMES
"If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience".
Varieties of Religious Experience (1902)
Sigmund FREUD
"...we men... find reality generally quite unsatisfactory"
Psychoanalysis (1910)
Albert EINSTEIN
"Gott würfelt nicht (God does not play dice)"
Relativity (1916)
Ludwig WITTGENSTEIN
"The world is the totality of facts, not things."
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921)





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