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Sakeeb Rahman
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“We deny God; in denying God, we deny accountability: only by doing that do we redeem the world. –”
― Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ
― Twilight of Idols and Anti-Christ
“What would it be like, a world without snow? I cannot imagine such a place. It would be like a world devoid of numbers. Every snowflake, unique as every number, tells us something about complexity. Perhaps that is why we will never tire of its wonder.”
― Thinking In Numbers: On Life, Love, Meaning, and Math
― Thinking In Numbers: On Life, Love, Meaning, and Math
“The purpose of thinking is to let the ideas die instead of us dying.”
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“If Hegel had written the whole of his logic and then said, in the preface or some other place, that it was merely an experiment in thought in which he had even begged the question in many places, then he would certainly have been the greatest thinker who had ever lived. As it is, he is merely comic.”
― Journals
― Journals
“Something we cannot see protects us from something we do not understand. The thing we cannot see is culture, in its intrapsychic or internal manifestation. The thing we do not understand is the chaos that gave rise to culture. If the structure of culture is disrupted, unwittingly, chaos returns. We will do anything — anything — to defend ourselves against that return.”
― Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
― Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief
Sakeeb’s 2025 Year in Books
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