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Stian said:
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I decided to read this book after a long walk that I took while listening to a Philosophy Bites episode titled "Who's your favourite philosopher?" In it, Nigel Warburton simply asks a host of prominent philosophers the question, and the answers, pred
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"'Tis not solely in poetry and music, we must follow our taste and sentiment, but likewise in philosophy. When I am convinc'd of any principle, 'tis only an idea, which strikes more strongly upon me. When I give the preference to one set of arguments above another, I do nothing but decide from my feeling concerning the superiority of their influence." — Jul 04, 2026 06:56AM
"'Tis not solely in poetry and music, we must follow our taste and sentiment, but likewise in philosophy. When I am convinc'd of any principle, 'tis only an idea, which strikes more strongly upon me. When I give the preference to one set of arguments above another, I do nothing but decide from my feeling concerning the superiority of their influence." — Jul 04, 2026 06:56AM
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"Statt zu antworten, rief Gandalf dem Pferd laut zu: "Voran, Schattenfell! Wir müssen eilen. Die Zeit ist knapp. Siehe! Die Leuchtfeuer von Gondor sind angezündet und rufen Hilfe herbei! Der Krieg ist entbrannt. Schau, da ist das Feuer auf Amon Dîn und die Flamme auf Eilenach; und dort ziehen sie sich eilends nach Westen: Nardol, Erelas, Min-Rimmon, Calenhad und Halifirien an den Grenzen von Rohan."" — Jul 12, 2026 04:02AM
"Statt zu antworten, rief Gandalf dem Pferd laut zu: "Voran, Schattenfell! Wir müssen eilen. Die Zeit ist knapp. Siehe! Die Leuchtfeuer von Gondor sind angezündet und rufen Hilfe herbei! Der Krieg ist entbrannt. Schau, da ist das Feuer auf Amon Dîn und die Flamme auf Eilenach; und dort ziehen sie sich eilends nach Westen: Nardol, Erelas, Min-Rimmon, Calenhad und Halifirien an den Grenzen von Rohan."" — Jul 12, 2026 04:02AM
“As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.”
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
― Moby-Dick or, The Whale
“One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.”
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“Livet tar snart slutt likevel,
og da gjør det ikke noe at du har vært ensom og stygg og ulykkelig.”
― Et stort øde landskap
og da gjør det ikke noe at du har vært ensom og stygg og ulykkelig.”
― Et stort øde landskap
“She may know a little, may think of herself, face and body, as ‘pretty’… but he could never tell her all the rest, how many other living things, birds, nights smelling of grass and rain, sunlit moments of simple peace, also gather in what she is to him.”
― Gravity’s Rainbow
― Gravity’s Rainbow
“It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going, because they were holding on to something. That there is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.”
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