Darwinism is not a sufficient condition for a phenomenon like Nazism but I think it's certainly a necessary one.

Ultimately, Leibniz argued, there are only two absolutely simple concepts, God and Nothingness. From these, all other concepts may be constructed, the world, and everything within it, arising from some primordial argument between the deity and nothing whatsoever. And then, by some inscrutable incandescent insight, Leibniz came to see that what is crucial in what he had written is the alternation between God and Nothingness. And for this, the numbers 0 and 1 suffice.

Some philosophers see into themselves, and some into their times; still others forge an alliance with the future.

The motion of the mind is conveyed along a cloud of meaning.~ There is this paradox that we get to meaning only when we strip the meaning from symbols.

No distinction in kind rather than degree between ourselves and the chimps? No distinction? Seriously, folks? Here is a simple operational test: the chimpanzees invariably are the one behind the bars of their cages.

I do not know whether any of this is true. I am certain that the scientific community does not know that it is false.

Arithmetic is where the content lies, and not logic; but logic prompts certainty, and not arithmetic.