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“There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.”
― The God Delusion
― The God Delusion
“The mind of a dying man is either an open book or a fluttering of pages turned so fast that the words cannot be read.”
― The Mask of Merlin: A Critical Biography of David Lloyd George
― The Mask of Merlin: A Critical Biography of David Lloyd George
“Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.”
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“Once in a great while, a few times in history, a human mind produces an observation so acute and unexpected that people can't quite decide which is the more amazing-the fact or the thinking of it.”
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
― A Short History of Nearly Everything
“Freedom is indivisible. Every attempt to restrict the freedom of the decadent troublesome literati and pseudo-artists would vest in the authorities the power to determine what is good and what is bad. It would socialize intellectual and artistic effort. It is questionable whether it would weed out the useless and objectionable persons; but it is certain that it would put insurmountable obstacles in the way of the creative genius.”
― The Anti-capitalistic Mentality
― The Anti-capitalistic Mentality
Hyperbolus’s 2025 Year in Books
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