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All of it—the rings of Saturn and my father’s wedding band, the underbelly of the clouds pinked by the rising sun, Einstein’s brain bathing in a jar of formaldehyde, every grain of sand that made the glass that made the jar and each idea
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“If Cleopatra’s nose, said Pascal, had been an inch longer or shorter, all history would have been changed.”
― The Story of Philosophy
― The Story of Philosophy
“In place of the Absolute as determining history through the Zeitgeist, Marx offered mass movements and economic forces as the basic causes of every fundamental change, whether in the world of things or in the life of thought. Hegel, the imperial professor, had hatched the socialistic eggs.”
― The Story of Philosophy
― The Story of Philosophy
“Narrative fiction provides a controlled wilderness, an opportunity to be and to become the Other. The stranger. With sympathy, clarity, and the risk of self-examination.”
― The Origin of Others
― The Origin of Others
“Narrative fiction provides a controlled wilderness, an opportunity to be and to become the Other. The stranger. With sympathy, clarity, and the risk of self-examination. In this iteration, for me the author, Beloved the girl, the haunter, is the ultimate Other. Clamoring, forever clamoring for a kiss.”
― The Origin of Others
― The Origin of Others
“mundane things are composed of a galaxy of the unfamiliar.”
― What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
― What Is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics
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