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Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Adventures in Philosophy with My Kids

by Scott Hershovitz (Goodreads Author)

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Jan 25, 2023 08:28AM

“She found the page, cleared her throat and began to read, " 'There was nary a doubt that I had ever seen such big ones, round and ripe. My teeth ached to bite them' " God, what tripe! ”
― Johanna Lindsey, Gentle Rogue

tags: romance-novel

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“The conservatism of a religion - it's orthodoxy - is the inert coagulum of a once highly reactive sap.”
― Eric Hoffer, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

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“In the wilderness, only the most terrible beasts of prey cavort and gambol. Deer and rabbits play no games.”
― Neal Stephenson, Quicksilver

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“There are no metaphysics.”
― Jonathan Lethem

tags: humor

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“What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?" asked the Christian theologian Tertullian... Having received the revealed thruth via Christ, "we want no curious disputation." Well that was then. Today science is so powerful that theologians can't casually dismiss secular knowledge. For most... Athens and Jerusalem must be reconciled or Jerusalem will fall off the map. Philo's thoughtful answer is 'Logos')”
― Robert Wright, The Evolution of God

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