Losing Purchase

Willy Nilly

Honestly, I cannot understand what people mean when they talk about the freedom of the human will. 

I have a feeling, for instance, that I will something or other; 

but what relation this has with freedom I cannot understand at all. 

I feel that I will to light my pipe and I do it; but how can I connect this up with the idea of freedom? 

What is behind the act of willing to light the pipe? Another act of willing? 

Schopenhauer once said: Der Mensch kann was er will; er kann aber nicht wollen was er will 

(Man can do what he will but he cannot will what he wills).

 ― Albert Einstein

Sleeping Dogs

This Disgrace To Civilisation

He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. 

He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. 

This disgrace to civilisation should be done away with at once. 

Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; 

I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. 

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

 — Albert Einstein

Playing Possum

The Socio Path To Management

Google +

Who Do You Think You Are?

King Charles I

Tony Robinson

Meta-Satire

Mob Ruled

The mob is the mother of tyrants.

 — Diogenes

Hot Air

State-Sponsored Racism

Nationalism is an infantile disease. 

It is the measles of mankind.

 — Albert Einstein

Tyrannos 'R' Us

The Art Of Surprise

Do the right thing.

It will gratify some people 

and astonish the rest.
 — Mark Twain

A Bicycle Needs A Fish

Hypocracy

Unjust Desserts

Only in a democracy can the people be blamed for the politicians they get.

The 'Con' In 'Conservative'

All The Gods Are Within Us

A belief in a cruel god makes a cruel man.
 –– Thomas Paine

Simplicity

Truth only gets complicated when untruthful people have power.

Houston, We Have A Problem

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. 

Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. 

Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? 

Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”

 ― Epicurus

Carpenter's Tool

Potpourri

Taken

One of the saddest lessons of history is this: 

If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, 

we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. 

We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. 

The bamboozle has captured us. 

It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, 

even to ourselves, 

that we’ve been taken. 

Once you give a charlatan power over you, 

you almost never get it back.

— Carl Sagan 'The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark'

Frank

The Loss Of Liberty Is The Price We Pay For Freedom

Memory Transplant

Inducktive Reasoning

The Ties That Bind

Psychology For Dummies

Grey Matter