/lit/ - Literature

Not very obscure but I don't see it mentioned here very much at all. None of Weaver's writings really and that is a shame.

>Awareness of the past is an antidote to both egotism and shallow optimism. It restrains optimism because it teaches us to be cautious about man’s perfectibility and to put a sober estimate on schemes to renovate the species. What coursebook in vanity and ambition is to be compared with Plutarch’s Lives? What more soundly rebukes the theory of automatic progress than the measured tread of Gibbon’s Decline and Fall? The reader of history is chastened, and, as he closes his book, he may say, with Dante, in the Inferno: “I had not thought death had undone so many.”

>>14361705
modern scientists are garbage for the most part

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>>14279148
cringe & yikes

>>14049823
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The hero can never be a relativist.

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is a pretty big red pill on """science"""

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Should be required reading for anyone going into the "sciences"

>>13697727
"""scientists"""
cringe & yikes desu senpai

>Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot admit the existence of tragedy until it again distinguishes between good and evil. . . Hysterical optimism as a sin against knowledge.

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