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Jorge is Currently Reading

Jorge Matheos is currently reading

The Year of Dreaming Dangerously

by Slavoj Žižek

bookshelves: aesthetics, politics, politics-left, philosophy, currently-reading

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Oct 20, 2012 01:57AM

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The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World

by David W. Anthony

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Aug 27, 2012 02:47AM

“What transforms this world is — knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same time leaving it exactly as it is. When you look at the world with knowledge, you realize that things are unchangeable and at the same time are constantly being transformed.”
― Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

tags: knowledge, stillness, transformation

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“It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling...”
― V.S. Naipaul, Magic Seeds

tags: ideology, politics

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“And if you can’t shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it...”
― Constantine P. Cavafy/Κωνσταντίνος Π. Καβάφης

tags: as-much-as-you-can, cavafy

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