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25Dec2024 (Review of translation by C.K. Scott Moncrieff, Terence Kilmartin, D.J. Enright)Herein lies a profusion of insights rendered in exacting, often unnecessary detail. It was both a privilege and an exquisitely painstaking effort to read and un ...more "
We do not see nature or intelligence or human motivation or ideology as “it” is but only as our languages are. And our languages are our media. Our media are our metaphors. Our metaphors create the content of our culture.
“Wisdom consists partly in not pretending anymore, in discarding artifice.”
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“It has always seemed strange to me...The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”
― Cannery Row
― Cannery Row
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