rysade comments on Rationality Quotes August 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Daniel_Burfoot 03 August 2011 03:30:15AM 19 points [-]

It was only toward the middle of the twentieth century that the inhabitants of many European countries came, in general unpleasantly, to the realization that their fate could be influenced directly by intricate and abstruse books of philosophy.

-Czeslaw Milosz, "The Captive Mind" (first sentence)

Comment author: rysade 09 September 2011 06:29:35PM 0 points [-]

I cannot like this enough. Thank you for showing me this book. This is a big piece of western philosophy and history that I did not know I was missing.