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Epictetus on the consequences of human nature
“If what is said by the philosophers regarding the kinship of Nature and people be true, what other course remains for us but that which Socrates took when asked to what country he belonged, never to say ‘I am an Athenian,’ or ‘I am a Corinthian,’ but ‘I am a citizen of the universe’? For why do you say that you are an Athenian, instead of mentioning merely that corner into which your paltry body
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The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
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| Depending on how one counts, there were at least eight major Crusades that took place between 1096 and 1270. The alleged goal of them all was to recover Jerusalem, taking it away from Muslim hands and returning it to Christian ones. (The city had fal ...more | |
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| I’m currently on a binge of books on pessimism, so I naturally picked up this one by Mara Van Der Lugt. Partial disappointment followed. Though the words “climate change” appear nowhere in the title or table of contents, half the book is about climat ...more | |
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| I am partial to Japanese, or in this case Japanese-American, novels, so I had great expectations for Katie Kitamura’s Audition. They only went partially disappointed. The book is divided into two parts, each featuring the same characters but essentia ...more | |
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What Mennonite Girls Are Good For:
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I don't know that I've read a book quite like this before. Told in 11 short stories, each one crackles with an importance of its own while contributing to the larger narrative. Reading it feels almost voyeuristic, as though you are seeing th" Read more of this review » |
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| Yet another interesting entry in the “Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers” ongoing series by Princeton University Press. While the ancient world is not exactly renowned for fair treatment of animals, the essays in this volume will make you question suc ...more | |
“Better to endure pain in an honorable manner than to seek joy in a shameful one.”
― How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life
― How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life
“[T]he nature of science is not that of a steady, linear progression toward the Truth, but rather a tortuous road, often characterized by dead ends and U-turns, and yet ultimately inching toward a better, if tentative, understanding of the natural world.”
― Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk
― Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk
Topics Mentioning This Author
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| All things Fandom: 2011 Authors | 88 | 309 | Aug 29, 2011 03:43PM | |
| All things Fandom: 2013 Authors list | 18 | 92 | Aug 24, 2013 12:10PM | |
| The Challenge Fac...: Dictionary Word of the Month-August Edition | 35 | 61 | Sep 01, 2018 02:50AM | |
| 2025 Reading Chal...: Richo's Challenges to Get to 1,000 Books | 83 | 455 | Oct 28, 2018 05:12AM | |
Nothing But Readi...:
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| 2025 Reading Chal...: Richo's 365 books for 2018 | 944 | 645 | Jan 06, 2019 03:57AM | |
| 2025 Reading Chal...: Let's Turn Pages - 2018 | 2167 | 1667 | Jan 12, 2019 04:17AM | |
| 2025 Reading Chal...: Anne's 60 in 2020 | 67 | 165 | Dec 23, 2020 07:44PM |
“We should not be too confident in our belief of anything. (Cicero, Tusculan Disputations I.32)”
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“UWTB, or the Universal Will to Become. UWTB is what makes universes out of nothingness—that makes nothingness insist on becoming somethingness.”
― The Sirens of Titan
― The Sirens of Titan
“I myself don’t know the facts of these matters, but I’ve never met anyone, including the people here today, who could disagree with what I’m saying and still avoid making himself ridiculous.”
― The Socratic Method: A Practitioner's Handbook
― The Socratic Method: A Practitioner's Handbook
“Renouncing the honors at which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can, and, when I die, to die as well as I can. And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men to do the same.”
― The Socratic Method: A Practitioner's Handbook
― The Socratic Method: A Practitioner's Handbook
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