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“Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.”
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“When all else fails, science comes up with a label, like “gravity” or “inertia” or “Asperger’s” and calls it a day.”
― Mercury Rises
― Mercury Rises
“I never allow myself to hold an opinion on anything that I don't know the other side's argument better than they do”
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“Come, what do we gain by evasions? We are under the harrow and can’t escape. Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable. And how or why did such a reality blossom (or fester) here and there into the terrible phenomenon called consciousness? Why did it produce things like us who can see it and, seeing it, recoil in loathing? Who (stranger still) want to see it and take pains to find it out, even when no need compels them and even though the sight of it makes an incurable ulcer in their hearts? People like H. herself, who would have truth at any price.”
― A Grief Observed
― A Grief Observed
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This club is about traditional Stoicism with the distinct purpose of enabling and promoting discourse on Stoic philosophy as a way of life.
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