“When one read's Kierkegaard's profound analyses of anxiety and despair or Nietzsche's amazingly acute insights into the dynamics of resentment and the guilt and hostility which accompany repressed emotional powers, one might pinch oneself to realize that one is reading works written in the last century and not some new contemporary psychological analysis.” MightLastsReadingRealizingWrittenCenturyEmotionalDespairAnxietyGuiltProfoundOneselfInsightContemporaryPsychologicalAnalysisResentmentHostilityAccompanyDynamicsRepressedEmotional Power Book:The Discovery of Being Source: The Discovery of Being
“Toward the end of his life, Gödel feared that he was being poisoned, and he starved himself to death. His theorem is one of the most extraordinary results in mathematics, or in any intellectual field in this century. If ever potential mental instability is detectable by genetic analysis, an embryo of someone with Kurt Gödel's gifts might be aborted.” IfsEndsMightResultsCenturyFieldsIntellectualMathematicsExtraordinaryAnalysisInstabilityTheoremsEmbryos Book:The Ascent of Science Source: The Ascent of Science
“As the worldly philosophers of the past affirmed, the goal of economics is to improve the way society functions. In The New Financial Order, Robert Shiller joins this proud tradition by directing his brilliant economic skills toward the creation of financial institutions designed to reduce the risks an unknown future visits on most members of our society and others. Shiller's imaginative and compelling analysis will appeal to all readers who share his passion for initiating not only a richer, but a better, century.” WayPastOrderPassionGoalRiskShareEconomicCenturyCreationReaderProudSkillsMembersEconomicsTraditionFunctionInstitutionsFinancialPhilosopherBrilliantAppealsAnalysisOur SocietyCompellingWorldlyImaginativeFinancial InstitutionsUnknown Future Author:Peter L. Bernstein
“The simplicity of the law by which the celestial bodies move, and the relations of their masses and distances, permit analysis to follow their motions up to a certain point; and in order to determine the state of the system of these great bodies in past or future centuries, it suffices for the mathematician that their position and their velocity be given by observation for any moment in time.” StatesMomentsBodyPastMovingLawScienceCertainOrderGivenCenturyPositionMassRelationDistanceSimplicityDetermineObservationAnalysisPermitMathematicianCelestialMoments In TimeVelocityCelestial Bodies Author:Pierre-Simon Laplace
“As far as Marx's analysis of capitalism, there's a lot of very useful ideas in it, but he's developing an abstract model of 19th century capitalism. It's abstract and it's changed.” IdeasCenturyChangedModelsCapitalismDevelopingAnalysisAbstract19th Century Author:Noam Chomsky
“Given how long philosophers have been at conceptual analysis (I mean the 20th century stuff), and how many have been doing it, what can we say are the two most important concept results of all that effort?” MeanLongHas BeensTwoImportantGivenStuffResultsEffortCenturyConceptsPhilosopherAnalysis20th Century Author:Patricia Churchland