Calvert Billings

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@QuilletteM @MikhailaAleksis

“I inhabited a proverb so vast that I needed the universe to fill it.” Robert Sabatier

“There are two kinds of people, do-ers and be-ers, embodying action and inaction. If I were more of a doer I wouldn’t be crying in my beer.” Cal Billings

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@Nigel_Farage @MadelineSeers13 @curryja @jordanbpeterson
@JonHaidt

“Academentia can be defined as the distorting influence on perception and intuition that results from sustained interaction with other academics.” Cal Billings

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@MadelineSeers13 @QuilletteM @JonHaidt @MZHemingway
“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.” Immanuel Kant

“Our science-centered secular culture has eschewed the One True Religion and adopted the One True Polity.” Cal Billings

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@jordanbpeterson @Nigel_Farage @MadelineSeers13

“Politicians are like comedians in the sense that their success is the result of effective stories that evoke behaviors, either a vote or a laugh, both of which are largely involuntary.” Cal Billings

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“The man who has a soul obeys only the universe.” Gabriel Germain

“For scientists, linear, two-dimensional reason is essential and might even be sufficient. For normal human beings, poetic imagination infuses an enchanted third dimension into life.” Cal Billings

@clairlemon

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@CMBradley9 @Ocasio2018 Word!

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Einstein’s Love Poem To Spinoza

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“To be relative is to take other things into account, to allow them to make a difference to oneself, in some sense to care about them." A.N. Whitehead

“My soul lives at the center of an inexhaustible image that fills the entire universe.” Cal Billings

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“The temple of the Spirit is the structure of matter; the universal dwells in the concrete particular; neither is real nor true apart from the other.” Jan Smutts

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“If evolution proceeds accidentally and we must uncritically accept the appearance of energy, life and consciousness, perhaps we would be better off to assert that God is the first accident.” Cal Billings

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@nntaleb

“An intellect bent upon the act to be performed is an intellect that touches something of the absolute.” Henri Bergson

“The poverty of human wisdom is most clearly seen in our certainty about the unknown.” Cal Billings

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“God, or creative experience, seems to have an unquenchable appetite for the finite realization of values.” A.N. Whitehead

“The purpose of imagination is to maximize possibilities without consequence.” Cal Billings

[Calvert Billings @CalvertBillings]

“Life is unbearable for the man who does not always have an enthusiasm at hand.” Maurice Barres

“Growth is always new, so I will never grow old.” Cal Billings

[Calvert Billings @CalvertBillings]

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” F. Scott Fitzgerald

“A human is born; a poet is reborn into a world that did not previously exist.” Cal Billings

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"If there is any one secret of success it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from their angle as well as your own." Henry Ford

“The problem of our time is too much nurture and too little nature.” Cal Billings

[Calvert Billings @CalvertBillings]

"Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance, is the death of knowledge." Alfred North Whitehead

“There is no privileged perspective, except for the perspective that realizes it is not.” Cal Billings

[Calvert Billings @CalvertBillings]

“He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that." John Stuart Mill

“The poet is limited by the written words, the image maker is limited only by the imagination of his epoch.” Cal Billings

[Calvert Billings @CalvertBillings]

“An argument is the process of convincing yourself that you are right.” Unknown author

“Half of all I believe is likely wrong and I embrace it so I may be half right.” Cal Billings

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[Calvert Billings @CalvertBillings]

“We mould ourselves in the image of that which we worship, and this fact should inform our openness to the kind of image we allow as the representation of our highest value.”

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Nice video by @cmbradley9 evaluating @bretweinstein and his almost Papal certainty that his worldview is privileged - or at least fully supported by scientific facts. Don’t evolutionary biologists disagree on many fundamentals? Doesn’t Richard Dawkins disagree with Bret?