A selection of tasty, toasty morsels of fresh-baked wisdom.
The Metapenguin, a literary submersible, trolling the dark and troublous waters of the lesser-known works of G.K. Chesterton, has unearthed a rich vein of hitherto-unsuspected monostichs.
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The word “cause” is an altar to an unknown god.
-- Wm. James
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A man bites down on a bad bagel, goes berseerk, slays six; a flutter of Twitter swirls around the Bagel Problem, the National Association of Bagel Bakers weighs in; eventually recipes are exchanged and everyone forgets the whole thing.
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“Che sera sera” is a truth of logic, not a version of determinism.
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Gödel himself did not draw any meretricious philosophical or televisable conclusions from this calculational oddity; he just said, “Tiens! A loop solution to the Einstein equations,” and went back to his real work.
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Meet the Monotheme
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