Wednesday, December 28, 2016

Lessons from Books/Personalities

1 Notion of West and nation of West
2 Anthropologist studies pre modern and sociologist studies industrial society
3 Inconvenient and unjust laws
4 Who is a statesman ? One who goes against the grain to do the right thing


Lessons from Harry Potter
1. Your parents might not be as noble as you thought they are.
2. Do spare a thought for the under-privileged (Elves)
3. Advice for youngsters : Do something not as the last action (Ron/Hermione)
4. It is not the abilities you have but the choices that you make.
5. Modesty is a good thing. You are not responsible for all that happens to you.
6. Sometimes old wounds from childhood do not heal.
7. Is not your ancestry but what you can do that defines you.
8. Some things are worth dying for.


1. The essence of being a human is to strive.

2. Mathematics book - legal formalism or legal pragmatist. Should evolving national consensus be allowed to evolve or dictated? Anton Scalia

3. The four ultimate concerns in life are death, isolation, freedom and meaninglessness.

4. In arguments start with how and not why

5. The state is nothing except the monopoly of force.

6. Concepts can be ascientific. Notion of being ascientific.