- Pierre (Peter) Abelard
- • Logic has made me hated by the world.
- • Language is generated by the intellect and generates the intellect.
Abelard of Le Pallet,
introduction
-
Aristotle
- There is nothing in the intellect that was not before in the senses
nihil in intellectu quod non prius fuerit in sensu
The Turing test and intelligence
[5]
James M. Barrie (1860–1937)- The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story,
and writes another.
Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832)- “The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation
of morals and legislation.”
Fascism
is socialism [2]
-
- Bernard of Clairvaux, to Abelard
- • You will find something more in the woods than in books. Woods
and stones will teach you what you cannot hear from the ‘masters’
“Logic has
made me hated among men”: Abelard of Le Pallet on theology [8]
Bernard of Chartres [d.
circa 1130]
- • We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that
we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not
by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical
distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by
their giant size.
The Turing test and intelligence
[1]
Clint Black (1962 - )
- You can wave your signs in protest
against America taking stands.
The stands America’s taken
are the reason that you can.
[From Iraq
and roll]
-
- Robert Bolt,
Man for All Seasons
- When a man takes an oath, Meg, he’s holding his ownself in his
own hands. Like water. And if he opens his fingers then – he needn’t
hope to find himself again.
—
Margaret: “Father, the man is bad.”
More: “There’s no law against that.”
Roper: “There is a law against it. God’s law.”
More: “Then God can arrest him.”
Roper: “Sophistication upon sophistication!”
More: “No. Sheer simplicity. The law, Roper, the law. I know what’s
legal, but I don't always know what’s right. And I'm sticking
with what’s legal.
Roper: “Then you set man’s law against God’s?”
More: “No. Far below. But let me draw your attention to a fact.
I am not God. The currents and eddies of right and wrong, which you
find such plain sailing, I can't navigate. I'm no voyager. But in the
thickets of the law, there I am a forester. I doubt if there’s
a man alive who could follow me there, thank God.”
Alice: “While you talk, he is gone.”
More: “And go he should, if he was the Devil himself, until he
broke the law.”
Roper: “So now you'd give the Devil the benefit of law!”
More: “Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law
to get to the Devil?”
Roper: “I'd cut down every law in England to do that!”
More: “Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned
round on you -- where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat.
This country’s planted thick with laws from coast to coast --
man’s laws, not God’s -- and if you cut them down -- and
you're just the man to do it -- do you really think you could stand
upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit
of the law, for my own safety’s sake.”
Mikhail Moiseyevich Botvinnik- I only think well when my mind is calm
why Aristotelian
logic does not work [6]
Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797) [attributed]- All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good people
do nothing
-
D. Buss
- the romantic fallacy: "I don't want people to be like that, therefore
they are not like that.
quote from Limbic
Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) 1832–98
English writer and logician- “There’s glory for you!”
“ I don’t know what you mean by ‘glory’,”
Alice said.
“I meant, ‘there’s a nice knock-down argument for
you!’ ”
“ ‘But‘glory’ doesn’t mean‘there’s
a nice knock-down argument’”, Alice objected.
“ When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful
tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more
nor less.”
“The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make
words mean so many different things.”
“The question is,” said Humpty Dumpty, “which is to
be master—that’s all.”
Through
the Looking-Glass (1872), chapter 6
- G.K. Chesterton (1874-1936)
- In The laughing prophet: the seven virtues
and G. K. Chesterton [Methuen, 1937], Emile Cammaerts [1878-1953]
merged the following two quotes:
“It’s drowning all your old rationalism and scepticism,
it’s coming in like a sea; and the name of it is superstition.
… It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose
your common sense.” [The Oracle of the Dog, 1923,
in The Incredulity of Father Brown] [1]
and
“You all swore you were hard-shelled materialists; and as a matter
of fact you were all balanced on the very edge of belief - of belief
in almost anything.” [The Miracle of Moon Crescent,
1924, in The Incredulity of Father Brown]
[2]
into the paraphrase of the G.K. Chesterton quotes
above:
“The first effect of not believing in God is to believe in anything.”
-
- Winston Churchill
(1874 - 1965)
- The mood and temper of the public in regard to the
treatment of crime and criminals is one of the most
unfailing tests of the civilisation of any country.
[1910]
M.T.
Clanchy’s book opens: - Peter Abelard, now forgotten, was once the most famous
man in the world.
Jean Baptiste Colvert [finance
minister of Louis XIV, 16th - 17th century]- The objective is to pluck the geese in such a manner
as to obtain the greatest number of feathers with the
least amount of hissing
The mechanics
of inflation: the great government swindle and how it
works
Thomas Alva Edison (1847
– 1931)- Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration’
Said circa 1903, in Harper’s
Monthly Magazine, September 1932 (Source: Oxford
Dictionary of Quotations). However, I think Nesbit,
a popular Victorian writer on self improvement, pre-dates
this.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790 )- They that can give up essential liberty to obtain
a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor
safety. see http://www.futureofthebook.com/stories/storyReader$605
-
- [Pennsylvania
Assembly: Reply to the Governor, Tue, Nov 11, 1755]
-
- From
a song with words by Dorothy
Fields, music by Jerome Kern, 1936
- Pick yourself up, dust yourself down and start all
over again
Drugs, smoking
and addiction [3]
Fridugisus, 9th century- This nothing is a very important something, since
it is that out of which god created everything’.
why
Aristotelian logic does not work [18]
- Milton Friedman
- Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon.
Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed
without
legislation.
-
Etienne Gilson [1884 - 1978],
Being and Some Philosophers, p. 52
-
- Religion has its own work, which is to educate people
who are too dull to understand philosophy, or too untutored
to be amenable to its teaching. This is why religion
is necessary, for what it preaches is fundamentally
the same as what philosophy teaches, and, unless common
men believed what it preaches, they would behave like
beasts. But theologians should preach, not teach, just
as philosophers should teach, not preach. Theologians
should not attempt to demonstrate, because they cannot
do it, and philosophers must be careful not to get belief
mixed up with what they prove, because then they can
no longer prove anything. Now, to preach creation is
just a handy way to make people feel that God is their
Master, which is true even though, as is well known
by those who truly philosophize, nothing of the sort
ever happened.
-
-
-
- Garrett James Hardin (1915
- 2003)
- Ecology is the overall science of which economics
is a minor speciality
Source:
Hardin obituary on this page.
Hardin
website
- Heloise
- • The name of mistress instead of wife would
be dearer and more honourable for me, only love given
freely, rather than the constriction of the marriage
tie, is of significance to an ideal relationship.
• God is my witness that if Augustus, emperor
of the whole world, thought fit to honour me with marriage
and conferred all the earth upon me to possess for ever,
it would be dearer and more honourable to me to be called
not his empress but your whore.
Abelard
of Le Pallet, introduction
Heraclitus
- You cannot step into the same river twice
why
Aristotelian logic does not work
-
Adolph Hitler
- • What luck for the rulers that men do not think
The
psychology and development of Adolph Hitler Schicklgruber
• There are many more
quotations taken from Hitler’s writing and speeches
collected together at Did
Hitler know about the holocaust? A psychological assessment.
Thomas Hobbes- During the time men live without a common power to
keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which
is called war; and such a war as is of every man against
every man.”
Power, ownership
and freedom [8]
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)- • All men are created equal” Why
Aristotelian logic does not work
• The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time
to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is
its natural manure.[1787]
Kelvin- Science begins when you can measure what you are talking
about and express it in numbers
why
Aristotelian logic does not work [21]
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