Saturday, February 6, 2021

Thoughts for the Day: Saturday 6 February 2021

 

1995 publication


Perhaps ideas are the single most precious miracle in human existence. For ideas determine our goals of action, our styles of art, our values of character, our religious practices and even our ways of loving.

Greek and modern physics are agreed that the most universal characteristic of this world is motion.

In the wake of Hegel and under the influence of an extremely intense interest in history, philosophy threatened to degenerate into speculation on the possibility that some kind of inherent law was manifested in history.

Machiavelli’s theory of political power, according to which the act of foundation itself—that is, the conscious beginning of something new—requires and justifies the use of violence.

Everything you do has the potential to limit what you do next. Everything you think has the potential to limit what you think next. And you won't even know that this is happening.

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