PhilGoetz comments on Rationality quotes: May 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: PhilGoetz 01 May 2010 03:54:31PM 6 points [-]

Like Marcus Aurelius, Beethoven, Schopenhauer, or Nietzsche?

Comment author: Alan 03 May 2010 02:00:14AM 0 points [-]

Leisure? Happiness? Aurelius, the emperor, was always on the move with his army trying to preserve his empire and worried about his conniving son, Commodus. Beethoven was a reclusive single man, who grew ill and deaf in later years. Schopenhauer was a self-absorbed and misogynistic single man (though he supposedly enjoyed walking his poodles). Nietzsche was a precocious and convalescent single man. Why not add Wittgenstein to the list? Selection bias?