RiGonz

A random walk through interests that happen to come. Shorter quotes than in foundamonglines@tunmblr.

[archatlas]

Cosmic Communist Constructions

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[en las Consideraciones Mann] Lucha contra la ideología democrática del compromiso y el progreso - la Zivilisation- que absorbe al individuo, penetrando hasta el interior de su conciencia y ahogando la peculiaridad de su persona y sus sentimientos. Dicha ideología, a su parecer, nivela las diversidades, aplana toda interioridad y toda metafísica en una reducción sociológica o psicológica, reemplaza la verdad por la opinión, el diálogo errabundo por el debate y la firma de un manifiesto, el estremecimiento del Lied por la frase hecha, las cosas últimas por el orden del día, la Kultur por la Zivilisation.

15.02.10 [Magris]

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Treatise that heals the doubt raised by parallel lines

Nassir Edin, XIII century

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I must continue to do it - my husband left the job to me.

China Daily 141213

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Los dos sintieron la infinitesimal rigidez, tibia aún, del aborrecimiento mutuo.

APombo

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The scene was terrible. The Emperor, distracted with grief, repeatedly embraced this faithful friend, endeavoring to cheer him; but the duke, who was perfectly conscious of his condition, replied only by entreaties to have opium given him. At these words the Emperor left the room; he could no longer control his emotions. *** (Le docteur) me répondit, en fort honnête homme, que son métier était de guérir et non de tuer. Peut-être il avait raison, quoique je ne lui demandasse pour eux que ce que j’aurais demandé pour moi à mes meilleurs amis, dans une semblable situation. J’ai souvent réfléchi depuis sur ce point de morale, j’ai demandé leur avis à plusieurs personnes, et je crois qu’au fond, il vaut toujours mieux souffrir qu’un homme finisse sa destinée quelle qu’elle soit. J’en ai jugé ainsi plus tard, à la mort de mon pauvre ami Duroc, lequel, quand ses entrailles tombaient à terre sous mes yeux, me demanda plusieurs fois et avec insistance, de faire mettre un terme à ses douleurs ; je lui dis : Je vous plains, mon ami, mais il n’y a pas de remède ; il faut souffrir jusqu’à la foi. » *** The Private Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Constant Vie de Napoléon, Stendhal

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Kasparov had concluded that the counterintuitive play must be a sign of superior intelligence. He had never considered that it was simply a bug.

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All models are wrong - but some are useful.

GEPBox

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... plus the second part.

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It takes a 11.1% gain to offset a 10% loss. It takes a 50% gain to offset a 33.3% loss. It takes a 100% gain to offset a 50% loss. It takes a near infinite gain to offset a 100-epsilon % loss.

http://www.overcomingbias.com

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My core politics is “I don’t know”; most people seem far too confident in their political opinions”.

RHanson

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Freedom is a pretty strange thing. Once you’ve experienced it, it remains in your heart, and no one can take it away. Then, as an individual, you can be more powerful than a whole country

Ai Wei Wei - Never Sorry (via mckoootiesassgrass)

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 Ai Wei Wei's multifaceted installation”@Large” is currently on view at Alcatraz island in the San Francisco bay. One component is this porcelain piece entitled “Blossoms” 

From the artist: “The misconception of totalitarianism is that freedom can be imprisoned. This is not the case. When you constrain freedom, freedom will take flight and land on a windowsill.”

Ai Weiwei’s exhibition on Alcatraz will be open through April 26, 2015

via thisiscolossal

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Unless you are a fan of Tolstoy - or of flowery prose- you'll have no particular reason to read Berlin's essay.

The Signal and the Noise, NSilver

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Clar i en català. [Gerard, TV3] 13.04.03