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“There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view I hold dear.”
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“If I know better than you know what I am up to, it is only because I spend more time with myself than you do.”
― Freedom Evolves
― Freedom Evolves
“I think we should stop treating ["God works in mysterious ways"] as any kind of wisdom and recognize it as the transparently defensive propaganda that it is. A positive response might be, "Oh good! I love a mystery. Let's see if we can solve this one, too. Do you have any ideas?”
― Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
― Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
“What you can imagine depends on what you know.”
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“f you can approach the world’s complexities, both its glories and its horrors, with an attitude of humble curiosity, acknowledging that however deeply you have seen, you have only just scratched the surface, you will find worlds within worlds, beauties you could not heretofore imagine, and your own mundane preoccupations will shrink to proper size, not all that important in the greater scheme of things.”
― Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
― Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
Robert’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Robert’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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361 books
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130 books
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