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“In our contemporary social and intellectual plight, it is nothing less than shocking to discover that those persons who claim to have discovered an absolute are usually the same people who also pretend to be superior to the rest. To find people in our day attempting to pass off to the world and recommending to others some nostrum of the absolute which they claim to have discovered is merely a sign of the loss of and the need for intellectual and moral certainty, felt by broad sections of the population who are unable to look life in the face.”
― Ideology and Utopia: An Introduction to the Sociology of Knowledge
― Ideology and Utopia: An Introduction to the Sociology of Knowledge
“Luck is seldom as haphazard as it may seem. It means being at the right place at the right time, and most of all, it means being prepared to take advantage of opportunities.”
― Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds
― Mind of the Raven: Investigations and Adventures with Wolf-Birds
“various people at her church kept saying that she could be happy because she was going home to be with Jesus. This is the sort of thing that gives Christians a bad name. This, and the Inquisition. Sue wanted to open fire on them all. I think I encouraged this.”
― Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace
― Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace
“As artists, we distort the truth and create the most amazing theories; we create entire philosophies and the most amazing religions; we create stories and superstitions about everything, including ourselves. And this is exactly the main point: We create them.”
― The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery
― The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery
“Old England is an imaginary place, a landscape built from words, woodcuts, films, paintings, picturesque engravings. It is a place imagined by people, and people do not live very long or look very hard. We are very bad at scale. The things that live in the soil are too small to care about; climate change too large to imagine. We are bad at time too. We cannot remember what lived here before we did; we cannot love what is not. Nor can we imagine what will be different when we are dead. We live out our three score and ten, and tie our knots and lines only to ourselves. We take solace in pictures, and we wipe the hills of history.”
― H is for Hawk
― H is for Hawk
Susan’s 2025 Year in Books
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