Ethan Clay Holliman

[Ethan Clay Holliman @echolliman]

“The rationalist’s attempt to overthrow faith is self-refuting, as it rests on a faith in reason that reason itself cannot justify.” (Smith 2007, 11).

Book Title: Reading Leo Strauss - Politics, Philosophy, Judaism

[Yuval Noah Harari @harari_yuval]

We are facing such rapid technological change that it is impossible to know what skills and knowledge will be in demand in the coming decades. It could be that much of what we teach in schools today will be irrelevant in a few years. The solution is to remain flexible and always willing to learn.

[Dan Go @CoachDanGo]

You need to avoid the doomer mentality. You have access to the worlds information. You can travel by car and have access to airplanes anywhere in the world. You have clean water and food on the table. Life has never been more comfortable. Stop scrolling negativity on social media and start taking advantage.

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

How our mattering instinct builds and divides our relationships https://t.co/ekdtU1C1Hi

[Francisco Ribeiro @fraveris]

Saying nothing, sometimes says the most.

- Emily Dickinson

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it’s happening to them.”

— Charles Bukowski

[Francisco Ribeiro @fraveris]

"The best way out is always through.”

— Robert Frost

[Haider. @haider1]

Mathematician Joel David says current AI models are basically zero help for mathematics

They produce garbage answers, then argue they're correct when you point out the exact error

"if i were talking to a person who argued like that, i'd stop talking to them"

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“My parents died years ago. I was very close to them. I still miss them terribly. I know I always will. I long to believe that their essence, their personalities, what I loved so much about them, are - really and truly - still in existence somewhere. I wouldn't ask very much, just five or ten minutes a year, say, to tell them about their grandchildren, to catch them up on the latest news, to remind them that I love them.

There's a part of me - no matter how childish it sounds - that wonders how they are. "Is everything all right?" I want to ask. The last words I found myself saying to my father, at the moment of his death, were "Take care."

Sometimes I dream that I'm talking to my parents, and suddenly - still immersed in the dreamwork - I'm seized by the overpowering realization that they didn't really die, that it's all been some kind of horrible mistake.

Why, here they are, alive and well, my father making wry jokes, my mother earnestly advising me to wear a muffler because the weather is chilly. When I wake up I go through an abbreviated process of mourning all over again. Plainly, there's something within me that's ready to believe in life after death. And it's not the least bit interested in whether there's any sober evidence for it.

So I don't guffaw at the woman who visits her husband's grave and chats him up every now and then, maybe on the anniversary of his death. It's not hard to understand. And if I have difficulties with the ontological status of who she's talking to, that's all right. That's not what this is about. This is about humans being human.”

― Carl Sagan

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”

― Cormac McCarthy

[Carl Jung Archive @QuoteJung]

There’s no coming to consciousness without pain

[Ethan Clay Holliman @echolliman]

@SchopenhauerNow It never was.

[Ethan Clay Holliman @echolliman]

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[Ethan Clay Holliman @echolliman]

We are living in a Leviathan of Licentious Lawfare.

[Philosophy Quotes @philosophors]

“Never apologize for showing feeling, my friend. Remember that when you do so, you apologize for truth.”

— Benjamin Disraeli