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El científico rebel... 03/16 Héctor gave 5 of 5 stars to:
El científico rebelde
by Freeman Dyson
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La nanotecnología.... 03/16 Héctor gave 5 of 5 stars to:
La nanotecnología. El surgimiento de las máquinas de creación
by K. Eric Drexler
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Dichos y contradicho... 07/13 Héctor is currently reading:
Dichos y contradichos
by Karl Kraus
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July 01
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Héctor made a comment in the group Classical music loversStravinsky topic:
943 Héctor wrote: "Organized!!!

Hand written musical score by Igor Stravinsky
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Héctor made a comment in the group Classical music loversRare Music Photos topic:
943 Héctor wrote: "Cul Euro Crete Hagia Triada Sarcophagus Sacrifice Musical Instruments

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Héctor made a comment in the group Books en EspañolFotos de Escritores topic:
943 Héctor wrote: "Frida sale bien en todas...
En esta, Borges, ya casi ciego, en la Universidad de Harvard (1968)

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June 20
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El científico rebel... Héctor gave 5 of 5 stars to:
El científico rebelde
by Freeman Dyson
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La nanotecnología.... Héctor gave 5 of 5 stars to:
La nanotecnología. El surgimiento de las máquinas de creación
by K. Eric Drexler
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George Bernard Shaw
"Your weak side, my diabolic friend, is that you have always been a gull: you take Man at his own valuation. Nothing would flatter him more than your opinion of him. He loves to think of himself as bold and bad. He is neither one nor the other: he is only a coward. Call him tyrant, murderer, pirate, bully; and he will adore you, and swagger about with the consciousness of having the blood of the old sea kings in his veins. Call him liar and thief; and he will only take an action against you for libel. But call him coward; and he will go mad with rage: he will face death to outface that stinging truth. Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one: and that one is his cowardice. Yet all his civilization is founded on his cowardice, on his abject tameness, which he calls his respectability. There are limits to what a mule or an ass will stand; but Man will suffer himself to be degraded until his vileness becomes so loathsome to his oppressors that they themselves are forced to reform it."
George Bernard Shaw


Max Horkheimer
"Although most people never overcome the habit of berating the world for their difficulties, those who are too weak to make a stand against reality have no choice but to obliterate themselves by identifying with it. They are never rationally reconciled to civilization. Instead, they bow to it, secretly accepting the identity of reason and domination, of civilization and the ideal, however much they may shrug their shoulders. Well-informed cynicism is only another mode of conformity. These people willingly embrace or force themselves to accept the rule of the stronger as the eternal norm. Their whole life is a continuous effort to suppress and abase nature, inwardly or outwardly, and to identify themselves with its more powerful surrogates—the race, fatherland, leader, cliques, and tradition. For them, all these words mean the same thing—the irresistible reality that must be honored and obeyed. However, their own natural impulses, those antagonistic to the various demands of civilization, lead a devious undercover life within them."
Max Horkheimer


Jacques Lacan
"That the Sadian fantasy situates itself better in the bearers of Christian ethics than elsewhere is what our structural landmarks allow us to grasp easily. But that Sade, himself, refuses to be my neighbor, is what needs to be recalled, not in order to refuse it to him in return, but in order to recognize the meaning of this refusal. We believe that Sade is not close enough to his own wickedness to recognize his neighbor in it. A trait which he shares with many, and notably with Freud. For such is indeed the sole motive of the recoil of beings, sometimes forewarned, before the Christian commandment. For Sade, we see the test of this, crucial in our eyes, in his refusal of the death penalty, which history, if not logic, would suffice to show is one of the corollaries of Charity."
Jacques Lacan


Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"Dangerous books.— Somebody remarked: “I can tell by my own reaction to it that this book is harmful." But let him only wait and perhaps one day he will admit to himself that this same book has done him a great service by bringing out the hidden sickness of his heart and making it visible.— Altered opinions do not alter a man’s character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche


Julio Cortázar
"¿Por qué tan lejos de los dioses? Quizá por preguntarlo. ¿Y qué? El hombre es el animal que pregunta. El día en que verdaderamente sepamos preguntar, habrá diálogo. Por ahora las preguntas nos alejan vertiginosamente de las respuestas. ¿Qué epifanía podemos esperar si nos estamos ahogando en la más falsa de las libertades, la dialéctica judeocristiana? Nos hace falta un Novum Organum de verdad, hay que abrir de par en par todas las ventanas y tirar todo a la calle, pero sobre todo hay que tirar también la ventana, y nosotros con ella. Es la muerte, o salir volando. Hay que hacerlo, de alguna manera hay que hacerlo."
Julio Cortázar


10 World Peace — 524 members — last activity 17 days ago, 01:54AM
May Peace Prevail on Earth.LOVE it or leave it but don't destroy it.
2835 Classical music lovers — 332 members — last activity 1 day ago, 01:50PM
Our fast-growing classical music group is sometimes erudite - and maybe a little eccentric - but we aim never to be exclusive.

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375 Quotable Quotes — 330 members — last activity 2 days ago, 02:08AM
I'd love to create a database of sorts filled with everyone's favorite quotes from books. Come share your favorites!
493 Books en Español — 237 members — last activity 2 days ago, 10:28PM
Este grupo es una invitación a difundir y comentar en idioma Español todo tipo de libros. Ha sido creado como una iniciativa colectiva para abrir un...more
99 Shrink Rap (Psychology Books) — 224 members — last activity 13 days ago, 08:38PM
This is an open group for students, amateurs, and professionals of psychology. It is intended to connect mental health professionals from all fields ...more
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