G. K. Chesterton
- I begin with a Little Girl's Hair
That little urchin with the gold-red hair, whom I have just watched toddling past my house, she shall not be lopped and lamed and altered; her hair shall not be cut short like a convict's; no, all the kingdoms of the earth shall be hacked about and mutilated to suit her. She is the human and sacred image; all around her the social fabric shall sway and split and fall; the pillars of society shall be shaken, and the roofs of ages come rushing down, and not one hair of her head shall be harmed.
T. S. Eliot
- The Waste Land
And when we were children, staying at the archduke's, my cousin's, he took me out on a sled, and I was frightened. He said, Marie, Marie, hold on tight. And down we went. In the mountains, there you feel free. I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
W. H. Auden
- In Memory of W. B. Yeats
Follow, poet, follow right to the bottom of the night, with your unconstraining voice still persuade us to rejoice; with the farming of a verse make a vineyard of the curse, sing of human unsuccess in a rapture of distress; in the deserts of the heart let the healing fountain start, in the prison of his days teach the free man how to praise.
W. H. Auden
- In Memory of Yeats
Earth, receive an honoured guest: William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie emptied of its poetry. In the nightmare of the dark all the dogs of Europe bark, and the living nations wait, each sequestered in its hate; intellectual disgrace stares from every human face, and the seas of pity lie locked and frozen in each eye.
Thomas Nagle
- Panpsychism
By panpsychism I mean the view that the basic physical constituents of the universe have mental properties, whether or not they are parts of living organisms. It appears to follow from a few simple premises, each of which is more plausible than its denial, though not perhaps more plausible than the denial of panpsychism.
Michael Huemer
- Existence Is Evidence of Immortality
Time may be infinite in both directions. If it is, then, if persons could live at most once in all of time, the probability that you would be alive now would be zero. Since you are alive now, with certainty, either the past is finite, or persons can live more than once.
sjdfio
- axiom of choice
One does not need to invoke the axiom of choice to construct a choice function on a finite number of sets. This can be done using existential instantiation a finite number of times. Nor is the axiom necessarily needed to construct a choice function on an infinite collection of sets. For example, if the union of such a collection has a bijective correspondence with a well-ordered set. The axiom of choice is only needed when constructing a choice function would require infinitely many steps.
