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“The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.”
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“In a 50-50 life or death crisis, choose death.”
― Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
― Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
“Absorb what is useful, discard what is useless and add what is specifically your own”
― Bruce Lee ― Wisdom for the Way
― Bruce Lee ― Wisdom for the Way
“beauty is an ultimate value—something that we pursue for its own sake, and for the pursuit of which no further reason need be given. Beauty should therefore be compared to truth and goodness, one member of a trio of ultimate values which justify our rational inclinations.”
― Beauty: A Very Short Introduction
― Beauty: A Very Short Introduction
“A man's usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can.
It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.
Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.”
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It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.
Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.”
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Carlos’s 2025 Year in Books
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