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“Insecurity cuts deeper and extends more widely than bare unemployment. Fear of loss of work, dread of the oncoming of old age, create anxiety and eat into self-respect in a way that impairs personal dignity.”
― Individualism Old and New
― Individualism Old and New
“Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.”
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“Intellectual progress usually occurs through sheer abandonment of questions together with both of the alternatives they assume -- an abandonment that results from their decreasing vitality and a change of urgent interest. We do not solve them: we get over them.”
― The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy and Other Essays
― The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy and Other Essays
“If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow.”
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“If an object - a star, for instance, like our own sun - is eight hundred light years away from the Earth, it would take light leaving that object eight hundred years until it reached our eyes. So when you look at that object, you are seeing it as it appeared eight hundred light years ago, not as it looks today. It might not even exist anymore. Every time you look up at the stars, you are looking into the past.”
― Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
― Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
Jkeller’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jkeller’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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