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Ryan Phung is currently reading

Hiểu về trái tim : nghệ thuật sống hạnh phúc

by Minh Niệm

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Ryan’s Quotes

“Who you are, what you think, feel, and do, what you love—is the sum of what you focus on.”
― Cal Newport, Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

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“Actually, we were at the other extreme from giants: we had become dwarfs! And I mean this quite literally. For, often, the right way to philosophize is to make yourself artificially stupid! Only by being "stupid" can you break the barrier of the seemingly obvious.”
― Apostolos Doxiadis, Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth

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“Sometimes, the best argument in favour of the old... is the new!”
― Apostolos Doxiadis, Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth

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“All the facts of science aren't enough to understand the world's meaning. For this, you must step outside the world."
"Without language of thought, how can you understand anything?"
"Who knows, maybe by whistling?”
― Apostolos Doxiadis, Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth

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“The meaning of the world does not reside in the world.”
― Apostolos Doxiadis, Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth

tags: ludwig-wittgenstein

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