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“Like any published memoir, our own life stories should also come with a disclaimer: “This story that I tell about myself is only based on a true story. I am in large part a figment of my own yearning imagination.” And it’s a good thing, too. As we will see, a life story is an intensely useful fiction.”
― The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
― The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
“We are not exactly sure what we are growing toward, but we compensate for this shortcoming by accelerating.”
― Economics of Good and Evil: The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street
― Economics of Good and Evil: The Quest for Economic Meaning from Gilgamesh to Wall Street
“Yes, experimental fictions like Finnegans Wake are still in print, but they are mainly sold either to cultured autodidacts dutifully grinding their way through the literary canon, or to college students who are forced to pretend that they have read them.”
― The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
― The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human
“From this it does not of course follow that there are no natural or human rights; it only follows that no one could have known that there were. And this at least raises certain questions. But we do not need to be distracted into answering them, for the truth is plain: there are no such rights, and belief in them is one with belief in witches and in unicorns.”
― After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory
― After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory
“It is yet another of Nietzsche’s merits that he joins to his critique of Enlightenment moralities a sense of their failure to address adequately, let alone to answer the question: what sort of person am I to become? This is in a way an inescapable question in that an answer to it is given in practice in each human life. But for characteristically modern moralities it is a question to be approached only by indirection. The primary question from their standpoint has concerned rules: what rules ought we to follow?”
― After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory
― After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory
Sean’s 2025 Year in Books
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