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Comment author: [deleted] 10 April 2012 07:05:17PM 4 points [-]

One day the last portrait of Rembrandt and the last bar of Mozart will have ceased to be — though possibly a colored canvas and a sheet of notes will remain — because the last eye and the last ear accessible to their message will have gone.

--Oswald Spengler, The Decline of the West

Comment author: [deleted] 13 April 2012 09:02:00PM 2 points [-]

That sounds deep, but it has nothing to to with rationality

Comment author: [deleted] 14 April 2012 06:27:08AM 1 point [-]

Not really, for example it is actually pretty clearly connected to fun theory.