PERPETUAL GROWTH IS IMPOSSIBLE: We’ve all heard the story of the clever merchant who asked the King to pay him with grains of wheat placed on a chessboard. On the first square he was to receive one grain; on the second, two grains; on the third, four grains — doubling with every square up [...]
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"Jesus said 'Render unto Caesar...' Epictetus said 'Caesar is a thief who stole power, and you don't owe him a goddamn dinari. But if he holds a sword to your throat, pay.' No wonder Stoicism was replaced with Christianity. So let's keep in mind which Jew caused the problem." - Day Brown
"There's a lot more human un-knowing than there is knowing, even among our best minds, at this stage in our evolution." - Kevin Alfred Strom
The Learned portrait of Virginia Poe, left; on the right the Traylor Miniature, showing a very young Edgar Poe. by Kevin Alfred Strom THIS YEAR marks the 200th birthday of the great poet and thinker Edgar Allan Poe. Today, October 7th, is the day of his mysterious death 160 years ago in Baltimore. And [...] "By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower." - Tagore
REVILO OLIVER RECOGNIZED: The well-known commentator for the Spectator newspaper in Britain, Taki Theodoracopulos, has just published an essay in his online magazine which, at least tentatively and partially, attempts to restore the place of the great and Menckenesque writer Revilo P. Oliver in the pantheon of 20th century thinkers. Interestingly, the article is [...] "The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do." - Eric Hoffer
"Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow." - Nietzsche
ART SITE UPDATED: My online art gallery has been updated recently, with newly-added paintings by Paul Delaroche, Angelica Kauffmann, Louis Janmot, Sophie Anderson, John Everett Millais, Abbott Handerson Thayer, Alexandre Cabanel, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Also added were portraits of Edgar and Virginia Poe, T.E. Lawrence, William Butler Yeats, Nikolai Gogol, Robert Louis Stevenson, Pedro [...] |
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