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Joshua’s 2025 Year in Books
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Review #2 of 2026: Capital by Karl Marx
Making Bessemer Steel by Edward F. Skinner We finally did it! I started the first volume of Capital with an offshoot of my philosophy book club last July1, and we wrapped up the book late last month. I’m very glad I read Marx, as I think his historical work, and some of his theories are incredibly insightful, most significantly his materialist analysis of history. However, I found myself incre
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"All value systems after Aristotle have been wrong except when they have been slightly modified through a lens of Christian thinkers like Aquinas or Jane Austin at least that’s what the author is going to argue in this book.
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"After 3 years, I finally did it. Switching translations made a huge difference. The Constance Garnett one killed me. P&V was much better & I plan to reread some early sections like the Grand Inquisitor in their translation. I'd probably give it a 5 i"
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“Perhaps we can fly. All of us. How will we ever know unless we leap from some tall tower? No man ever truly knows what he can do unless he dares to leap.”
― A Feast for Crows
― A Feast for Crows
“My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“He must have known I'd want to leave you."
"No, he must have known you would always want to come back.”
― Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
"No, he must have known you would always want to come back.”
― Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
“all men are fools, and all men are knights, where women are concerned.”
― A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
― A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
“This isn’t lust. Lust wants, does the obvious, and pads back into the forest. Love is greedier. Love wants round-the-clock care; protection; rings, vows, joint accounts; scented candles on birthdays; life insurance. Babies. Love’s a dictator.”
― The Bone Clocks
― The Bone Clocks
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