At 3:40 PM -0500 on 3/25/02, Faustine wrote:
> Schopenhauer came first! Absolutely. You bet. What she said. My favorite Schopenhauer warhorse was the line about the three stages of a new idea, "All truth goes through three stages. First it is ridiculed. Then it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident." :-). Cheers, RAH -- ----------------- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA The IBUC Symposium on Geodesic Capital April 3-4, 2002, The Downtown Harvard Club, Boston <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> for details... "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
