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Music
Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best…
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Philosophy is erotic, not just epistemic
Socrates only seems to embody a weak paradox. On the one hand, Socrates is declared the wisest man in Greece by the Oracle at Delphi. On the other hand…
The Book Of Dead Philosophers (critchley, Simon) #philosophy #wisdom #knowledge #love #justice
Discovering Ockeghem's Requiem
During the trip when I caught my first glimpse of the sacred, I had been listening to a CD of Hildegard of Bingen. The music must have touched me more deeply…
The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #music #religious-experience #history #beauty
Minimalism in music
G.K. Chesterton once wrote that there is “no such thing as an uninteresting subject, only an uninterested person,” and minimal music has opened me to the…
Minimalism Is Boring (and That's Ok) | I Care If You Listen #music #art #beauty #such-things
Knowledge and information
T.S. Eliot said it best, "Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"and I would add, Where is the…
The Limits Of The Digital Humanities, By Adam Kirsch | New Republic #information #knowledge #data #wisdom
Glory, like love if love were sin
We wouldn’t make it. We couldn’t make it. There weren’t many of them—there weren’t many guns firing—but they had so much time to get a sight on us and shoot…
A thesaurus reflects an historical state of knowledge
It must be clear, that a thesaurus can never reflect absolute truth but only a historical stage of knowledge.
Thesauri Of Historical Periods – A Proposal For Standardization. #truth #thesaurus #knowledge #stage