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- José Ortega y Gasset - Wikiquote
- Jun 21, 3:05pm (1 review) arts http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_O...
- "Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist."
- Gustav Dore Illustrations of Don Quixote
- Jun 19, 4:29pm painting http://www.doreillustrations.com/donquix...
- Letras Libres - "COMPILACIÓN DE AFORISMOS" por Nicolás Gómez Dávila
- Jun 8, 6:52pm (1 review) philosophy http://www.letraslibres.com/index.php?se...
- "En un siglo donde los medios de publicidad divulgan infinitas tonterías, el hombre culto no se define por lo que sabe sino por lo que ignora."
- Ricefield #4: Photo by Photographer Lester A. Garcia - photo.net
- Feb 3, 5:34pm photography, photos http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=...
- John Gray on secular fundamentalists | Books | The Guardian
- Feb 3, 5:15pm (5 reviews) religion, science, atheism http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/mar...
- "Science is the best tool we have for forming reliable beliefs about the world, but it does not differ from religion by revealing a bare truth that religions veil in dreams. Both science and religion are systems of symbols that serve human needs - in the case of science, for prediction and control. Religions have served many purposes, but at bottom they answer to a need for meaning that is met by myth rather than explanation. A great deal of modern thought consists of secular myths - hollowed-out religious narratives translated into pseudo-science."
- Forgiveness and Irony by Roger Scruton, City Journal Winter 2009
- Feb 1, 6:24pm (1 review) christianity, politics, islam, terrorism http://www.city-journal.org/2009/19_1_th...
- "The late Richard Rorty saw irony as a state of mind intimately connected with the postmodern worldview--a withdrawal from judgment that nevertheless aims at a kind of consensus, a shared agreement not to judge. The ironic temperament, however, is better understood as a virtue--a disposition aimed at a kind of practical fulfillment and moral success. Venturing a definition of this virtue, I would describe it as a habit of acknowledging the otherness of everything, including oneself. However convinced you are of the rightness of your actions and the truth of your views, look on them as the actions and the views of someone else and rephrase them accordingly. So defined, irony is quite distinct from sarcasm: it is a mode of acceptance rather than a mode of rejection. It also points both ways: through irony, I learn to accept both the other on whom I turn my gaze, and also myself, the one who is gazing. Pace Rorty, irony is not free from judgment: it simply recognizes that the one who judges is also judged, and judged by himself."
- George Eastman House Selected Lewis W. Hine Series
- Dec 30, 2008 5:46pm photography, photos http://www.geh.org/fm/lwhprints/htmlsrc2...
- George Eastman House Selected Lewis W. Hine Series
- Dec 30, 2008 5:44pm photography, photos http://www.geh.org/fm/lwhprints/htmlsrc2...
- Brave New Worldview - ChronicleReview.com
- Dec 12, 2008 5:59am (4 reviews) british-literature, religion, neuroscience http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id...
- "Following the philosophers Henri-Louis Bergson and C.D. Broad, Huxley consistently argued that consciousness was filtered and translated by the brain through incredibly complex neurophysiological, linguistic, psychological, and cultural processes, but not finally produced by it. We are not who we think we are. Or better, who we think we are is only a temporary mask (persona) that a greater Consciousness wears for a time and a season in order to "speak through" (per-sona). That old English bard had it just right, then: The world really is a stage."
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