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Shakespeare
1564–1616
The player's ear. Everything argued in a voice.
Hume
1711–1776
Custom is the great guide of human life.
Kant
1724–1804
The critical philosophy. Duty before consequence.
Mill
1806-1873
Liberty argued from first principles, by the man who did the arithmetic.
Climacus
pseud., 1844–46
Subjectivity is truth. The system has no door.
Huxley
1825-1895
Darwin's case, put by the man who fought for it in public.
Tolstoy
1828–1910
Moral simplification, brought down like a hammer.
Twain
1835–1910
The deflation. Moral seriousness in a joke's clothing.
James
1842-1910
Truth tested by what it costs and what it pays.
Nietzsche
1844–1900
The hammer, and the ear for what rings hollow.
Chesterton
1874–1936
Paradox as argument. Cheerful, and harder than it looks.
Mencken
1880–1956
The Baltimore verdict. Delivered at speed, from a height.
Fitzgerald
1896–1940
The lovely surface, and the ruin just under it.
Buffett
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b. 1930
Plain arithmetic, told as a story about people.
A simulation — the man himself unconsulted.
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