Pat Norman

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Pat.

https://www.goodreads.com/patnorman

The Power of Geog...
Rate this book
Clear rating

progress: 
 
  (page 156 of 352)
21 hours, 1 min ago

 
The Wisdom of Tea...
Rate this book
Clear rating

progress: 
 
  (page 9 of 352)
Apr 27, 2026 04:46AM

 
Where the Light G...
Rate this book
Clear rating

progress: 
 
  (page 41 of 344)
Apr 27, 2026 04:45AM

 
See all 7 books that Pat is reading…
Loading...
“I think human consciousness is a tragic misstep in human evolution. We became too self aware; nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself. We are creatures that should not exist by natural law. We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self, a secretion of sensory experience and feeling, programmed with total assurance that we are each somebody, when in fact everybody’s nobody. I think the honorable thing for our species to do is deny our programming, stop reproducing, walk hand in hand into extinction, one last midnight, brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal.”
Rustin Cohle

W. Edwards Deming
“Without data, you're just another person with an opinion.”
W. Edwards Deming
tags: data

Michel Foucault
“Marxism exists in nineteenth-century thought like a fish in water: that is, it is unable to breathe anywhere else.”
FOUCAULT MICHEL, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences

Michel Foucault
“In any given culture and at any given moment, there is always only one 'episteme' that defines the conditions of possibility of all knowledge, whether expressed in theory or silently invested in a practice.”
Michel Foucault, The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences

Jostein Gaarder
“(As human beings) We see everything everything in a glass, darkly. Sometimes we can peer through the glass and catch a glimpse of what is on the other side. If we were to polish the glass clean, we'd see much more. But then we would no longer see ourselves.”
Jostein Gaarder, Through a Glass, Darkly

689129 The Dank Street Depot Great Books Course — 5 members — last activity Jul 23, 2018 07:55PM
For people following along the Dank Street Depot Great Books course, started by Pat and Way.
year in books
Emma Gerts
1,080 books | 33 friends

Michele...
592 books | 58 friends

Lady Erin
333 books | 17 friends

Jaime Chew
206 books | 11 friends

David T...
292 books | 34 friends

Julie
877 books | 28 friends

Jen Sonter
109 books | 54 friends

Donherr...
722 books | 211 friends

More friends…



Polls voted on by Pat

Lists liked by Pat