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He was a stupid man. His eyes were glazed and solemn with stupidity.
“Occasionally, I’d notice I’d lost a whole day to a book; even when I stepped outside for a walk, I was still having conversations with the characters in my mind.”
― The Point of Vanishing: A Memoir of Two Years in Solitude
― The Point of Vanishing: A Memoir of Two Years in Solitude
“Folk wisdom has it that five Jews wrote the rules of society: Moses said, “The law is everything.” Jesus said, “Love is everything.” Marx said, “Money is everything.” Freud said, “Sex is everything.” Einstein said, “Everything is relative.”
― Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947
― Genius & Anxiety: How Jews Changed the World, 1847-1947
“The question to ask about an education is not 'What can I do with it?' but rather 'What is it doing to me – as a person?”
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“If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to make them worse.”
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“The problem is academics are students afraid to graduate, so their grasp on reality is for shit.”
― Serpentine
― Serpentine
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