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23: “You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appalls me. There is a taint of death, a flavor of mortality in lies-which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world—-what ...more "
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I find Leonardo DaVinci incredibly interesting but the writing by Isaacson feels forced and chore-like. This book feels like a report written out of obligation rather than a lucid dialog of knowledge, interest, and passion of the subject. I would rat ...more "
“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
― The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin
― The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin
“One can't understand everything at once, we can't begin with perfection all at once! In order to reach perfection one must begin by being ignorant of a great deal. And if we understand things too quickly, perhaps we shan't understand them thoroughly.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
“The first and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered by self is, of all things, the most shameful and vile.”
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“It's life that matters, nothing but life—the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
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