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Sigmund Freud: Weltanschauung: A Philosophy of Life (1932) Identification Number: 299 Excerpt: Sigmund Freud A Philosophy of Life (1932)==== LADIES AND GENTLEMEN - In the last lecture we were occupied with trivial everyday affairs, with putting, as it were, our modest house in order. We will now take a bold step, and risk an answer to a question which has repeatedly been raised in non-analytic quarters, namely, the question whether psychoanalysis leads to any particular Weltanschauung, and if so, to what. 'Weltanschauung' is, I am afraid, a specifically German notion, which it would be difficult to translate into a foreign language. If I attempt to give you a definition of the word, it can hardly fail to strike you as inept. By Weltanschauung, then, I mean an intellectual construction which gives a unified solution of all the problems of our existence in virtue of a comprehensive hypothesis, a construction, therefore, in which no question is left open and in which everything in ... Author:  ALBERTO 
Wednesday August 27, 2008 - 12:27:57 Visitors: 100 Tagged by its author as: BooksList topics of this author only: click here Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal For Preventing The Children Of Poor People etc Identification Number: 298 Excerpt: Jonathan Swift A Modest Proposal For Preventing The Children Of Poor People In Ireland From Being A Burden To Their Parents Or Country, And For Making Them Beneficial To The Public (1729)==== It is a melancholy object to those who walk through this great town or travel in the country, when they see the streets, the roads, and cabin doors, crowded with beggars of the female sex, followed by three, four, or six children, all in rags and importuning every passenger for an alms. These mothers, instead of being able to work for their honest livelihood, are forced to employ all their time in strolling to beg sustenance for their helpless infants: who as they grow up either turn thieves for want of work, or leave their dear native country to fight for the Pretender in Spain, or sell themselves to the Barbadoes. I think it is agreed by all parties that this prodigious number of children in the ... Author:  ALBERTO 
Wednesday August 27, 2008 - 12:06:34 Visitors: 98 Tagged by its author as: BooksList topics of this author only: click here Samuel Butler: Cambridge Pieces: Powers Identification Number: 297 Excerpt: Samuel Butler Cambridge Pieces: Powers==== But, my son, think not that it is necessary for thee to be excellent if thou wouldst be powerful. Observe how the lighter substance in nature riseth by its own levity and overtoppeth that which is the more grave. Even so, my son, mayest thou be light and worthless, and yet make a goodly show above those who are of a more intrinsic value than thyself. But as much circumspection will be necessary for thee to attain this glorious end, and as by reason of thy youth thou art liable to miss many of the most able and effective means of becoming possessed of it, hear the words of an old man and treasure them in thy heart. The required qualities, my son, are easily procured; many are naturally gifted with them. In order, however, that thou mayest keep them in set form in thy mind commit to memory the following list of requisites: Love of self, love ... Author:  ALBERTO 
Wednesday August 27, 2008 - 11:59:09 Visitors: 96 Tagged by its author as: BooksList topics of this author only: click here Samuel Butler: Cambridge Pieces: Prospectus Of The Great Split Society Identification Number: 296 Excerpt: Samuel Butler Cambridge Pieces: Prospectus Of The Great Split Society==== It is the object of this society to promote parties and splits in general, and since of late we have perceived disunion among friends to be not nearly so ripe as in the Bible it is plainly commanded to be, we the members of this club have investigated the means of producing, fostering, and invigorating strife of all kinds, whereby the society of man will be profited much. For in a few hours we can by the means we have discovered create so beautiful a dissension between two who have lately been friends, that they shall never speak of one another again, and their spirit is to be greatly admired and praised for this. And since it is the great goddess Talebearer who has contributed especially to our success, inasmuch as where she is not strife will cease as surely as the fire goeth out when there is no wood to feed it... Author:  ALBERTO 
Wednesday August 27, 2008 - 11:58:37 Visitors: 96 Tagged by its author as: BooksList topics of this author only: click here Michael De Montaigne: Essay: On Liars. Identification Number: 295 Excerpt: Michael De Montaigne On Liars==== There is not a man living whom it would so little become to speak from memory as myself, for I have scarcely any at all, and do not think that the world has another so marvellously treacherous as mine. My other faculties are all sufficiently ordinary and mean; but in this I think myself very rare and singular, and deserving to be thought famous. Besides the natural inconvenience I suffer by it (for, certes, the necessary use of memory considered, Plato had reason when he called it a great and powerful goddess), in my country, when they would say a man has no sense, they say, such an one has no memory; and when I complain of the defect of mine, they do not believe me, and reprove me, as though I accused myself for a fool: not discerning the difference betwixt memory and understanding, which is to make matters still worse for me. But they do me wrong; for experie... Author:  ALBERTO 
Wednesday August 27, 2008 - 11:48:30 Visitors: 96 Tagged by its author as: BooksList topics of this author only: click here Virginia Woolf: Essay: Modern Fiction. Identification Number: 294 Excerpt: Virginia Woolf Modern Fiction==== In making any survey , even the freest and loosest, of modern fiction, it is difficult not to take it for granted that the modern practice of the art is somehow an improvement upon the old. With their simple tools and primitive materials, it might be said, Fielding did well and Jane Austen even better, but compare their opportunities with ours! Their masterpieces certainly have a strange air of simplicity. And yet the analogy between literature and the process, to choose an example, of making motor cars scarcely holds good beyond the first glance. It is doubtful whether in the course of the centuries, though we have learnt much about making machines, we have learnt anything about making literature. We do not come to write better; all that we can be said to do is to keep moving, now a little in this direction, now in that, but with a circular tendency sho... Author:  ALBERTO 
Friday August 22, 2008 - 15:23:29 Visitors: 107 Tagged by its author as: BooksList topics of this author only: click here Virginia Woolf: Character In Fiction Identification Number: 293 Excerpt: Virginia Woolf Character In Fiction==== It seems to me possible, perhaps desirable, that I may be the only person in this room who has committed the folly of writing, trying to write, or failing to write, a novel. And when I asked myself, as your invitation to speak to you about modern fiction made me ask myself, what demon whispered in my ear and urged me to my doom, a little figure rose before me - the figure of a man, or of a woman, who said, 'My name is Brown. Catch me if you can.' Most novelists have the same experience. Some Brown, Smith, or Jones comes before them and says in the most seductive and charming way in the world, 'Come and catch me if you can.' And so, led on by this will - o' - the - wisp, they flounder through volume after volume, spending the best years of their lives in the pursuit, and receiving for the most part very little cash in exchange. Few catch the phanto... Author:  ALBERTO 
Thursday August 21, 2008 - 22:03:30 Visitors: 152 Tagged by its author as: BooksList topics of this author only: click here Bertrand Russell: How to Become a Man of Genius Identification Number: 292 Excerpt: Bertrand Russell How to Become a Man of Genius Originally published: New York American and other Hearst papers, December 28, 1932==== If there are among my readers any young men or women who aspire to become leaders of thought in their generation, I hope they will avoid certain errors into which I fell in youth for want of good advice. When I wished to form an opinion upon a subject, I used to study it, weigh the arguments on different sides, and attempt to reach a balanced conclusion. I have since discovered that this is not the way to do things. A man of genius knows it all without the need of study; his opinions are pontifical and depend for their persuasiveness upon literary style rather than argument. It is necessary to be one-sided, since this facilitates the vehemence that is considered a proof of strength. It is essential to appeal to prejudices and passions of which men have ... Author:  ALBERTO 
Thursday August 14, 2008 - 10:32:25 Visitors: 201 Tagged by its author as: BooksList topics of this author only: click here Php: Detect Meaningless Or Spam Words As Sequences Of Chars Or Consonants Identification Number: 291 Excerpt: {OBJECTIVE}: given an input string, detect whether it includes sequences of a given amount of consecutive consonants that may belong to meaningless words, thus detecting either typos or common spam text elements (for instance, for some reason, spam mail subjects and/or body messages often include such sequences). Related topic: Php: Detect Filter Obfuscated Advertisement Spam Words Within Input Texts The simplest way to achieve this is via a regular expression:function meaninglessConsonants($input='', $chars='bcdfghkjlmnpqrstvwxyz', $group=3){ $chars=trim($chars); if(!$chars){$chars='bcdfghkjlmnpqrstvwxyz';}; $group=abs($group); if(!$group){return false;}; preg_match_all('/['.$chars.']{'.$group.',}/i', $input, $output)... Author:  ALBERTO 
Friday August 8, 2008 - 10:34:31 Visitors: 250 Tagged by its author as: Programming PhpList topics of this author only: click here Karl Popper: Three Worlds. The Tanner Lecture On Human Values Identification Number: 290 Excerpt: Karl Popper Three Worlds The Tanner Lecture On Human Values. Delivered at The University of Michigan on April 7, 1978==== [I] In this lecture I intend to challenge those who uphold a monist or even a dualist view of the universe; and I will propose, instead, a pluralist view. I will propose a view of the universe that recognizes at least three different but interacting sub - universes.^^For a fuller discussion of these ideas, see my Objective Knowledge (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972, 1979); my Autobiography in P. A. Schilpp, ed., The Philosophy o f Karl Popper (La Salle, III.: Open Court, 1974), also published as Unended Quest (London and La Salle, III.: Fontana/Collins and Open Court, 1976); and my contributions to K. R. Popper and J. C. Eccles, The Self and Its Brain (Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, London: Springer International, 1977). ^^ There is, first, the world that consists... Author:  ALBERTO 
Thursday August 7, 2008 - 23:41:40 Visitors: 273 Tagged by its author as: BooksList topics of this author only: click here Bertrand Russell: Vagueness (1923) Identification Number: 289 Excerpt: Bertrand Russell Vagueness (1923)==== Reflection on philosophical problems has convinced me that a much larger number than I used to think, or than is generally thought, are connected with the principles of symbolism, that is to say, with the relation between what means and what is meant. In dealing with highly abstract matters it is much easier to grasp the symbols (usually words) than it is to grasp what they stand for. The result of this is that almost all thinking that purports to be philosophical or logical consists in attributing to the world the properties of language. Since language really occurs, it obviously has all the properties common to all occurrences, and to that extent the metaphysic based upon linguistic considerations may not be erroneous. But language has many properties which are not shared by things in general, and when these properties intrude into our metaphys... Author:  ALBERTO 
Tuesday August 5, 2008 - 08:37:56 Visitors: 237 Tagged by its author as: BooksList topics of this author only: click here Carl Gustav Jung: On Life After Death Identification Number: 288 Excerpt: Carl Gustav Jung On Life After Death==== What i have to tell about the hereafter, and about life after death, consists entirely of memories, of images in which I have lived and of thoughts which have buffeted me. These memories in a way also underlie my works; for the latter are fundamentally nothing but attempts, ever renewed, to give an answer to the question of the interplay between the "here" and the "hereafter." Yet I have never written expressly about a life after death; for then I would have had to document my ideas, and I have no way of doing that. Be that as it may, I would like to state my ideas now. Even now I can do no more than tell stories - "mythologize." Perhaps one has to be close to death to acquire the necessary f reedom to talk about it. It is not that I wish we had a life after death. In fact, I would prefer not to foster such ideas. Still, I must state, to give realit... Author:  ALBERTO 
Thursday July 31, 2008 - 22:42:53 Visitors: 338 Tagged by its author as: BooksList topics of this author only: click here Javascript Get Client Date In Timestamp Format For SQL Insertion Identification Number: 287 Excerpt: {OBJECTIVE}: build by javascript a timestamp fit to be inserted as timestamp within a mySql. A simple task. function sqlDate(){ var d=new Date(); var m=d.getMonth()+1; if(m... Author:  ALBERTO 
Monday July 21, 2008 - 09:03:58 Visitors: 511 Tagged by its author as: Programming JavascriptList topics of this author only: click here Erwin Schrödinger: The Fundamental Idea Of Wave Mechanics. Nobel Lecture. Identification Number: 286 Excerpt: Erwin Schrödinger The fundamental idea of wave mechanics Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1933==== On passing through an optical instrument, such as a telescope or a camera lens, a ray of light is subjected to a change in direction at each refracting or reflecting surface. The path of the rays can be constructed if we know the two simple laws which govern the changes in direction: the law of refraction which was discovered by Snellius a few hundred years ago, and the law of reflection with which Archimedes was familiar more than 2,000 years ago. As a simple example, Fig. 1 shows a ray A-B which is subjected to refraction at each of the four boundary surfaces of two lenses in accordance with the law of Snellius. Fermat defined the total path of a ray of light from a much more general point of view. In different media, light propagates with different velocities, and the ra... Author:  ALBERTO 
Sunday July 20, 2008 - 00:02:47 Visitors: 487 Tagged by its author as: Scientifical ReviewsList topics of this author only: click here Javascript Edit Portions Of Webpages Insert Keyboard Input Text: contentEditable Identification Number: 285 Excerpt: {OBJECTIVE}: make specified portions of a web page directly editable by user keyboard inputs. function editable(id, onOff/*1=0n, 0=off*/, reportData/*0,1,2*/){ if(document.getElementById(id)){ if(!reportData){ document.getElementById(id).contentEditable=(onOff)?'true':'false';/*value must be a string*/ //document.getElementById(id).designMode=(onOff)?'on':'off'; return true; } else if(document.getElementById(id).childNodes.length){ return (reportData... Author:  ALBERTO 
Sunday July 13, 2008 - 14:16:04 Visitors: 532 Tagged by its author as: Programming JavascriptList topics of this author only: click here Origen: Homilies On Leviticus: The Seven Remissions Of Sins Identification Number: 284 Excerpt: Origen Homilies On Leviticus, Chapter 2, Paragraph 4 From: Homilies On Leviticus Note: my translation, English not being my native language, from an Italian reading. Boldtype by translator. ==== (...) listen now to how many are the remissions of sins in the Gospels. There is a {first} one when we are baptized for the remission of sins^^Romans, 14,15^^. A {second} remission occurs in the sufferings of martyrdom; the {third} one is that which comes by the alms. In fact our Saviour says: rather give what you have, and everything will be right for you^^Luke 11,41^^. A {fourth} remission of sins happens when we ourselves remit the sins of our brothers; in fact just our Saviour and Lord says:For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses^^Mt. 6,14^... Author:  ALBERTO 
Sunday July 13, 2008 - 10:54:23 Visitors: 504 Tagged by its author as: Religion Esoterica and SpiritualityList topics of this author only: click here How To Lead A Successful Job Interview And How To Fill In A Job Application Identification Number: 283 Excerpt: [How To Lead A Successful Job Interview] Note: Author: currently unknown. 1. Wear a walkman to the interview. Repeatedly ask the interviewer to speak up. 2. Bring fast food and eat it during the interview. Belch loudly. Rate each belch. 3. If the job is in the computer industry, demonstrate your ability to imitate the sound of a 28.8 bps modem making a connection. Repeat as necessary. 4. Ask if you can bring your pet to work. 5. Ask if the company has day-care for pets. 6. Respond to the interviewer's questions by saying "I'll have to ask my mom." 7. During the interview, excuse yourself several times to call your mother. 8. Ask if the company's facilities include a vomitorium. 9. Plead your fifth amendment rights at least twice. 10. If the interviewer is a man, tell him he has a very pretty mouth. If a woman, tell her she reminds you of your hamster, Mugsy. 11. Challenge the interviewer to an arm wrestling match. 12. After the interviewer shakes your... Author:  ALBERTO 
Wednesday July 9, 2008 - 19:04:50 Visitors: 552 Tagged by its author as: Humor and JokesList topics of this author only: click here A Reader Writes: A Message For Nick Lane About: "Power, Sex, Suicide". Identification Number: 282 Excerpt: Hi Mr. Lane, well not a native English speaker writing here. Yet I just thoroughly read your book "Power, Sex, Suicide". I must say that, compared with other books like the notorious The Selfish Gene, yours is truly outstanding for contents, depth of thought, and many a time also for literary value. Reading Dawkins' selfish gene I was somewhat puzzled at seeing how he de-rubricated whatever opinion opposed to his like the opinion of a "philosopher", which term he meant in a derogatory way. I wonder if Dawkins was aware that scientists, still at the age of Isaac Newton, were not called scientists but "natural {philosophers}" (and Newton has actually been dubbed recently as "the last magician", for few know that he wrote much more about alchemy than about math, and it didn't seem to do any harm to his intellectual faculties...). Philosophy may not be a lesson in nature, yet it does is a lesson in thinking. Perhaps Dawkins has never read Immanuel Kant. So it was refreshing readi... Author:  ALBERTO 
Friday July 4, 2008 - 05:28:54 Visitors: 581 Tagged by its author as: Epistles Letters and AdviceList topics of this author only: click here A Personal Dictionary Of Differences: Constraints Identification Number: 281 Excerpt: {Localised}: the object has been detected as performing its actions in a specific area. It is subtly implied that, though pinpointed, its action may not be necessarily meant as always and invariably occurring at that location: the idea of a constraint is not present. Operating outside that location may not necessarily be unnatural for the object or cause danger. {Resident}: the object has been detected as performing its actions in a specific area. It is subtly implied that, though pinpointed, its action is almost necessarily meant as always and invariably occurring at that location: the idea of a constraint is not present. Operating outside that location may be unnatural for the object or cause danger. {Confined}: the object has been detected as performing its actions in a specific area. It is subtly implied that its action is enduring constraints that keep its action strictly limited to that playground. Some level of reliance is assumed about the capacity of these constraints o... Author:  ALBERTO 
Friday June 27, 2008 - 12:27:32 Visitors: 616 Tagged by its author as: DictionariesList topics of this author only: click here Vladimir Nabokov: Sounds. From: Collected Stories Identification Number: 280 Excerpt: Vladimir Nabokov Sounds From: Collected Stories ==== It was necessary to shut the window: rain was striking the sill and splashing the parquet and armchairs. With a fresh, slippery sound, enormous silver specters sped through the garden, through the foliage, along the orange sand. The drainpipe rattled and choked. You were playing Bach. The piano had raised its lacquered wing, under the wing lay a lyre, and little hammers were rippling across the strings. The brocade rug, crumpling into coarse folds, had slid partway off the piano's tail, dropping an opened opus onto the floor. Every now and then, through the frenzy of the fugue, your ring would clink on the keys as, incessantly, magnificently, the June shower slashed the win-dowpanes... Author:  ALBERTO 
Sunday June 22, 2008 - 03:43:51 Visitors: 622 Tagged by its author as: BooksList topics of this author only: click here