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“The task of interpretation is to take the letter and history as the point of departure and move upward to the spiritual realities.”
― Hermeneutical Procedure and Theological Method in Origen's Exegesis
― Hermeneutical Procedure and Theological Method in Origen's Exegesis
“If you haven't read hundreds of books, you are functionally illiterate, and you will be incompetent, because your personal experiences alone aren't broad enough to sustain you.”
― Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead
― Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead
“The totality of what exists, including what has existed and will exist, is infinitely small in comparison with the totality of the objects of knowledge. This fact easily goes unnoticed, probably because the lively interest in reality which is part of our nature tends to favor that exaggeration which finds the non-real a mere nothing (...) or, more precisely, which finds the non-real to be something for which science has no application or at least no application of any worth.”
― Über Gegenstandstheorie. Selbstdarstellung.
― Über Gegenstandstheorie. Selbstdarstellung.
“Joyous Love seemed to me, the while he held
My heart within his hands, and in his arms
My lady lay asleep wrapped in a veil.
He woke her then and trembling and obedient
She ate that burning heart out of his hand;
Weeping I saw him then depart from me.”
― La Vita Nouva
My heart within his hands, and in his arms
My lady lay asleep wrapped in a veil.
He woke her then and trembling and obedient
She ate that burning heart out of his hand;
Weeping I saw him then depart from me.”
― La Vita Nouva
“So the things about Amherst that, in hindsight, disappoint me are things not about Amherst but about who I was when I was there. I let almost no one know me, and I lost the chance to know and learn from most of my peers. It took years after I’d graduated from Amherst to realize that people were actually far more complicated and interesting than books, that almost everyone else suffered the same secret fears and inadequacies as I, and that feeling alone and inferior was actually the great valent bond between us all. I wish I’d been smart enough to understand that.”
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Nick’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Nick’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
551 books
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376 friends
4,502 books
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1,188 friends
1,284 books
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99 friends
3,471 books
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428 friends
492 books
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258 friends
1,260 books
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115 friends
9,280 books
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2,908 friends
399 books
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740 friends
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