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Book cover for Strange Tools: Art and Human Nature
although art and philosophy are practices of investigation of the ways we find ourselves habitually organized, it is critical that these second-order activities arise out of the first level. Art is like mapmaking, in this respect. And ...more
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Haruki Murakami
“There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”
Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

Albert Camus
“Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky. There have been as many plagues as wars in history; yet always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise.”
Albert Camus, The Plague

Albert Camus
“At Oran, as elsewhere, for lack of time and thinking, people have to love one another without knowing much about it.”
Albert Camus, The Plague

Albert Camus
“Perhaps the easiest way of making a town's acquaintance is to ascertain how the people in it work, how they love, and how they die.”
Albert Camus, The Plague

Albert Camus
“The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. The soul of the murderer is blind; and there can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clear-sightedness.”
Albert Camus, The Plague

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