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Self-discipline is the way to transform your weaknesses into strengths.
“How much truth is contained in something can be best determined by making it thoroughly laughable and then watching to see how much joking around it can take. For truth is a matter that can withstand mockery, that is freshened by any ironic gesture directed at it. Whatever cannot withstand satire is false.”
― Critique of Cynical Reason
― Critique of Cynical Reason
“Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“I have my mother’s mouth and my father’s eyes; on my face they are
still together.”
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still together.”
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“It is easier, far easier, to obey another than to command oneself.”
― When Nietzsche Wept
― When Nietzsche Wept
“Then you think there is no God?"
"No, I think there quite probably is one."
"Then why? …"
Mustapha Mond checked him. "But he manifests himself in different ways to different men. In premodern times he manifested himself as the being that's described in these books. Now …"
"How does he manifest himself now?" asked the Savage.
"Well, he manifests himself as an absence; as though he weren't there at all.”
― Brave New World
"No, I think there quite probably is one."
"Then why? …"
Mustapha Mond checked him. "But he manifests himself in different ways to different men. In premodern times he manifested himself as the being that's described in these books. Now …"
"How does he manifest himself now?" asked the Savage.
"Well, he manifests himself as an absence; as though he weren't there at all.”
― Brave New World
Val’s 2025 Year in Books
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