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(Human beings need to watch out for reasonless niceness too. It’s never reasonless and its reason’s not usually nice.)
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
― Emerson in His Journals
― Emerson in His Journals
“I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here. I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell.”
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“Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”
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“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
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“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.”
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Michael’s 2025 Year in Books
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