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Adesso basta (Simone Perotti)
Fare la lista delle proprie passioni
cerchiamo di capire se nella vita ci siamo mai chiesti realmente, concretamente, onestamente se qualcosa ci piace, se qualcosa ci appassiona. Se sì, lavoriamo su questa lista di passioni, per cercare di capire quante di esse siano realizzabili, quali lo siano di più e quali…
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
Penrose the mathematical Platonist
For all intents and purposes, Penrose is a Platonist when it comes to mathematical truth. This might seem at odds with his view that Gödel’s theorem shows that the mind in noncomputable. Penrose accepts the implications of Gödel’s theorem, which implies that human mathematical…
The robustness of mathematical truth
the precise mathematical entities from the approximations that we see around us in the world of physical things. In mathematics, we find a far greater robustness than can be located in any particular mind. Mathematics itself indeed seems to have a robustness that goes far…
Dragonflies fooled by polarized light
Donald Hoffman relates the following example about dragonflies to illustrate the idea that biological perception does not report the truth about the world: Many dragonflies, for instance, lay their eggs in water. For millions of years, their visual systems have guided them to…
A quick trick instead of the truth
more polarization the better. In the environment in which they evolved, this trick was a useful guide to behavior and allowed them to avoid constructing a complex understanding of the truth.
Trust the speeding bus anyway
Even if our experience of the world is fundamentally no different from a hallucination, we should take our conscious experience of the world very seriously. Hoffman uses the example of seeing a bus speeding toward us as we walk across the street. We had better trust this…
Durante (Andrea De Carlo)
La luce non può venire dagli altri
“Il fatto che ne sai infinitamente più di me su tutto” ho detto. “Per esempio?” ha detto lui. “Sul senso ultimo delle cose” ho detto. “Le ragioni profonde dietro a quello che succede.” Lui si è messo a ridere, piano. Un cane ha sospirato profondamente. “Perché ridi?” ho detto…
Eretz Acheret - A Letter To Europe - Let Us Not Despair Of Europe, Let Us Not Despair Of Ourselves
Patočka's three movements of human life
Patocka distinguishes between three main types of movement, which describe the different types of human life in the world: the movement of acceptance, the movement of defense and the movement of truth. These basic types are at one and the same time stages in life…
Human, All Too Human: A Book For Free Spirits
Sorrow is Knowledge. The tree of knowledge is not that of life.
Sorrow is Knowledge.—How willingly would not one exchange the false assertions of the homines religiosi that there is a god who commands us to be good, who is the sentinel and witness of every act, every moment, every thought, who loves us, who plans our welfare in every…
It is the characteristic of an advanced civilization to set a higher value upon little, simple truths, ascertained by scientific method,
Truths.—It is the characteristic of an advanced civilization to set a higher value upon little, simple truths, ascertained by scientific method, than upon the pleasing and magnificent errors originating in metaphysical and æsthetical epochs and peoples. To begin with, the…
After of the ending of absolute values, a life of tranquillity is the only solution (granted a man has the right temperament for it)
For Tranquility.—But will not our philosophy become thus a tragedy? Will not truth prove the enemy of life, of betterment? A question seems to weigh upon our tongue and yet will not put itself into words: whether one can knowingly remain in the domain of the untruthful? or, if…
The strength of feeling is no voucher for the validity of knowledge
What they claim is that through the medium of profound feelings one can penetrate deep into the soul of things (Innre), draw close to the heart of nature. But these feelings are deep only in so far as with them are simultaneously aroused, although almost imperceptibly, certain…
If there is no longer any ought morality, wouldn't death be preferable?
For Tranquility.—But will not our philosophy become thus a tragedy? Will not truth prove the enemy of life, of betterment? A question seems to weigh upon our tongue and yet will not put itself into words: whether one can knowingly remain in the domain of the untruthful? or, if…
La Formica Zen (italian Edition) ( )
Chi parla di ciò che non sa mente
La gente finge di sapere qualsiasi cosa su Dio, sulla vita futura, l'universo, le origini dell'uomo, l'evoluzione; ma, in realtà, non sa nulla, neppure su se stessa. E ogni volta che uno parla di qualcosa che non sa come se la sapesse, mente. Gurdjieff
Non credere a nulla senza ragione
Non credere a nulla, non importa dove l’hai letta o chi l’ha detto, neppure se l’ho detto io, a meno che non sia affine alla tua ragione e al tuo buon senso. Buddha
È la verità a trovare noi
Non siamo noi a trovare la Verità. È la Verità a trovare noi. Dobbiamo solo prepararci". "Si può invitare un ospite che non si conosce? No. Ma si può mettere la casa in ordine, così che, quando l'ospite arriva, si è pronti a riceverlo e a conoscerlo". Tizianio Terzani
Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle)
Conditions of satisfaction
Whenever we have an intentional state that has a non-null direction of fit, the fit will either be achieved or not: the belief will be true, the desire will be fulfilled, the intention will be carried out or not, as the case might be. In such cases, we can say that the belief…
The components of a thought
We have already seen that an intentional state sets conditions of satisfaction. So for example, if I have the belief that Socrates drinks water then my belief will be true, and hence satisfied, if and only if Socrates drinks water. The questions we are asking now are, What…
Each word contributes to the truth condition
Everybody agrees that each component, “Socrates” and “water,” makes a contribution to the total truth condition of the thought. “Socrates” picks out Socrates and “water” refers to water.
Richard Feynman On Religion, Science, The Search For Truth & Our Willingness To Live With Doubt - Open Culture
Science and religion
Both Feynman and Tyson seem to agree that the scientific and Creationist methods for discovering “truth,” whatever that may be, are basically incompatible. Says Feynman: “There are very remarkable mysteries… but those are mysteries I want to investigate without knowing the…
The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
The body is in the soul
It is not enough, therefore, to describe, define, and try to understand things or events by analysis alone, by taking them to pieces to find out “how they are made.” This tells us much, but probably rather less than half the story. Today, scientists are more and more aware that…
Peace can be made only by the peaceful
The startling truth is that our best efforts for civil rights, international peace, population control, conservation of natural resources, and assistance to the starving of the earth—urgent as they are—will destroy rather than help if made in the present spirit. For, as things…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
Every recollection reconstructs the memory
‘Every time we recall an event, we must reconstruct the memory, and with every recollection the memory may be changed … Truth and reality, when seen through the filter of our memories, are not objective facts but subjective, interpretive realities.’
Some ways of carving up the world are better
shows how the postmodernists were right: there is nothing inevitable about the way we think about the world. We can carve it up in many different ways. What they fail to stress, though, is that some carvings-up are better and more truthful than others. We can indeed think…
Ricoeur's great oscillation of the I
we must avoid what Paul Ricoeur called ‘the great oscillation that causes the “I” of the “I think” to appear, by turns, to be elevated inordinately to the heights of first truth and then cast down to the depths of a vast illusion’.
Calling superstition by its name
It is often considered disrespectful to dismiss any aspects of religion as mere superstitions, but if that is what they are, there is no other truthful way of putting it.
Thesauri Of Historical Periods – A Proposal For Standardization.
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.
Zappa Quotes
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…