Comments on: Index Librorum Prohibitorum http://www.zenfetish.com/2009/10/03/idex-liborum-prohibitorum/ Another day at the office with Angela St. Lawrence, PhoneFemFatale Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:02:25 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: science nerd http://www.zenfetish.com/2009/10/03/idex-liborum-prohibitorum/#comment-36055 science nerd Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:53:15 +0000 http://www.zenfetish.com/2009/10/03/idex-liborum-prohibitorum/#comment-36055 The internet is marvelous and dark too, but libraries are sacred. To be among the physical manifestation of centuries of collective wisdom, wit, creativity, tenacity, research, insight, etc is humbling and an honor. The internet is marvelous and dark too, but libraries are sacred. To be among the physical manifestation of centuries of collective wisdom, wit, creativity, tenacity, research, insight, etc is humbling and an honor.

]]> By: PQS http://www.zenfetish.com/2009/10/03/idex-liborum-prohibitorum/#comment-36033 PQS Sun, 04 Oct 2009 14:59:14 +0000 http://www.zenfetish.com/2009/10/03/idex-liborum-prohibitorum/#comment-36033 "Among the notable writers on the list were Jean Buridan and Laurence Sterne, as well as the Dutch sexologist Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde, author of the sex manual The Perfect Marriage. Others included: Joseph Addison Francis Bacon Simone de Beauvoir Cesare Beccaria Jeremy Bentham Henri Bergson George Berkeley Thomas Browne Giordano Bruno John Calvin Auguste Comte Nicolaus Copernicus Jean le Rond d'Alembert Erasmus Darwin Daniel Defoe Alexandre Dumas, père Alexandre Dumas, fils Desiderius Erasmus Johannes Scotus Eriugena Frederick II of Prussia Galileo Galilei Edward Gibbon Vincenzo Gioberti Graham Greene Heinrich Heine Thomas Hobbes David Hume Cornelius Jansen Adam F. Kollár Nikos Kazantzakis Johannes Kepler Hughes Felicité Robert de Lamennais John Locke Martin Luther Niccolò Machiavelli Maimonides Nicolas Malebranche Jules Michelet John Stuart Mill John Milton Ernest Renan George Sand Jonathan Swift Miguel de Unamuno Maria Valtorta Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde Gerard Walschap Huldrych Zwingli" “Among the notable writers on the list were Jean Buridan and Laurence Sterne, as well as the Dutch sexologist Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde, author of the sex manual The Perfect Marriage.

Others included:

Joseph Addison
Francis Bacon
Simone de Beauvoir
Cesare Beccaria
Jeremy Bentham
Henri Bergson
George Berkeley
Thomas Browne
Giordano Bruno
John Calvin
Auguste Comte
Nicolaus Copernicus
Jean le Rond d’Alembert
Erasmus Darwin
Daniel Defoe
Alexandre Dumas, père
Alexandre Dumas, fils
Desiderius Erasmus
Johannes Scotus Eriugena
Frederick II of Prussia
Galileo Galilei
Edward Gibbon
Vincenzo Gioberti
Graham Greene
Heinrich Heine
Thomas Hobbes
David Hume
Cornelius Jansen
Adam F. Kollár
Nikos Kazantzakis
Johannes Kepler
Hughes Felicité Robert de Lamennais
John Locke
Martin Luther
Niccolò Machiavelli
Maimonides
Nicolas Malebranche
Jules Michelet
John Stuart Mill
John Milton
Ernest Renan
George Sand
Jonathan Swift
Miguel de Unamuno
Maria Valtorta
Theodoor Hendrik van de Velde
Gerard Walschap
Huldrych Zwingli”

]]> By: Mr. Smith http://www.zenfetish.com/2009/10/03/idex-liborum-prohibitorum/#comment-36023 Mr. Smith Sun, 04 Oct 2009 08:04:47 +0000 http://www.zenfetish.com/2009/10/03/idex-liborum-prohibitorum/#comment-36023 "Think about a world stunted by intellectual pygmies who want to steal every idea ever found in a book, because they’ve never had an original one of their own, and it scares the hell out of them." And this is why I love you. Absolute genius. “Think about a world stunted by intellectual pygmies who want to steal every idea ever found in a book, because they’ve never had an original one of their own, and it scares the hell out of them.”

And this is why I love you. Absolute genius.

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