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“The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.”
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“Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt”
― Critique of Pure Reason
― Critique of Pure Reason
“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
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“The minute I heard my first love story,
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along.”
― The Illuminated Rumi
I started looking for you, not knowing
how blind that was.
Lovers don't finally meet somewhere.
They're in each other all along.”
― The Illuminated Rumi
“Civilization is a race between disaster and education.”
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Hendrik’s 2025 Year in Books
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