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“we can trust children to find out about the world, and that when trusted, they do find out.”
― Instead of Education: Ways to Help People Do Things Better: Way to Help People Do Things Better
― Instead of Education: Ways to Help People Do Things Better: Way to Help People Do Things Better
“If s-chools, doing places for children, are honest, active, and interesting enough, they will not need to be compulsory; as long as they are compulsory, they don't need to be good, and most of them will not be. To say that schools must be compulsory because someday they might all be good, is to say in effect that they must be compulsory no matter how bad they are. I”
― Instead of Education: Ways to Help People Do Things Better: Way to Help People Do Things Better
― Instead of Education: Ways to Help People Do Things Better: Way to Help People Do Things Better
“Television, in other words, is transforming our culture into one vast arena for show business. It is entirely possible, of course, that in the end we shall find that delightful, and decide we like it just fine. That is exactly what Aldous Huxley feared was coming, fifty years ago.”
― Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
― Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
“Reuben was the child of Polish-speaking parents.’ The Director interrupted himself. ‘You know what Polish is, I suppose?’ ‘A dead language.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“Po dziesięciokroć przezwyciężaj siebie za dnia; to sprowadza dobre znużenie i jest makiem dla duszy.
Po dziesięciokroć jednaj się na powrót z samym sobą; albowiem przezwyciężenie niesie gorycz, a źle sypia niepojednany.
Dziesięć prawd znajdź za dnia; inaczej nocą szukać będziesz prawdy, a Twoja dusza pozostanie głodna.
Po dziesięciokroć śmiej się za dnia i bądź pogodny; inaczej w nocy dokuczał Ci będzie żołądek, ten ojciec melancholii.
Choćby jednak posiadał kto wszystkie cnoty, jednego jeszcze trzeba: umieć wysłać je w porę spać.”
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Po dziesięciokroć jednaj się na powrót z samym sobą; albowiem przezwyciężenie niesie gorycz, a źle sypia niepojednany.
Dziesięć prawd znajdź za dnia; inaczej nocą szukać będziesz prawdy, a Twoja dusza pozostanie głodna.
Po dziesięciokroć śmiej się za dnia i bądź pogodny; inaczej w nocy dokuczał Ci będzie żołądek, ten ojciec melancholii.
Choćby jednak posiadał kto wszystkie cnoty, jednego jeszcze trzeba: umieć wysłać je w porę spać.”
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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Irmus’s 2025 Year in Books
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