Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-01

Ephemera (i.e. Tumblr posts)

• Logical errors are, I think, of greater practical importance than many people believe; they enable their perpetrators to hold the comfortable opinion on every subject in turn. Any logically coherent body of doctrine is sure to be in part painful and contrary to current prejudices.

  Bertrand Russell, A Brief History of Western Philosophy, p. 93

  08/31/10

• My cat knows nothing of Kierkegaard, but he loves mice even as he hunts them.

  “Paul CometX”, Comment #6 on NYTimes:The Stone “The Rigor of Love”, August 9th, 2010

  08/18/10

• I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he’s not careful.

  Yann Martel, Life of Pi

  08/02/10

• Our school is dedicated to our children so they may know that in the last analysis education is a celebration of life.

  Stanley Bosworth

  (Written on the front of St. Ann’s, a New York private school founded by Bosworth in 1965 that boasts “no grades, few rules and exceptionally good admissions to some of the country’s most elite colleges.”) /via New York Times - At St. Ann’s, Increased Stability, but Also Controversy.

  07/21/10

• The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

  Isaac Asimov

  07/21/10