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“Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don't believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it's good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason.”
― The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
― The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”
― The Bacchae
― The Bacchae
“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
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“Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.”
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“Spinoza was the supreme rationalist. He saw an endless stream of causality in the world. For him there is no such entity as will or will power. Nothing happens capriciously. Everything is caused by something prior, and the more we devote ourselves to the understanding of this causative network, the more free we become." ... "I'm sure he would have said that you are subject to passions that are driven by inadequate ideas rather than by the ideas that flow from a true quest for understanding the nature of reality." ... "He states explicitly that a passion ceases to be a passion as soon as we form a more clear and distinct idea of it--that is, the causative nexus underlying the passion." p.269”
― The Spinoza Problem
― The Spinoza Problem
Julia’s 2024 Year in Books
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