1) “The only thing that we know is that we know nothing — and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.” 2) “Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly. It is the one thing we are interested in here.” 3) “You will die — and it will
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Running respectively in the Republican and Democratic primaries for President, Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have attracted much more support than the party establishments expected. They didn’t expect it because, in prior presidential-election cycles, men like them would almost certainly have been marginal candidates destined to drop out early. That hasn’t happened, and at this
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We’re big proponents of self-education at Intellectual Takeout. So when today’s Washington Post claimed there was a new way to get an expensive Ivy League education without paying tuition, I eagerly bit. According to The Post, the way to this inexpensive education is through the Open Syllabus Explorer, which is “an online database of books assigned
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So, there’s a video making the social media rounds with a CNN reporter supposedly asking Bernie Sanders supporters to define socialism. Here it is: Based on a lot of what we’ve seen in articles and online comments, the reporter probably revealed quite a bit of truth about what young Americans actually understand about
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The French philosopher Simone Weil (1909-1943) only lived to the age of 34. But in spite of her brief life she created a body of work that has garnered some impressive compliments. Albert Camus described her as “the only great spirit of our time.” T.S. Eliot wrote that she was “a woman of genius, of
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Even if you’re not religious, you should know your religious mythology. As many of the great thinkers of the past recognized, the mythological stories offered (or expressed) important archetypes for understanding our present world. For instance, in The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche interprets human life as a struggle between the Apollonian (rational) and Dionysian (irrational)
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