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Seyed is Currently Reading

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The Odyssey

by Homer

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The Mercy of Gods (The Captive's War, #1)

by James S.A. Corey (Goodreads Author)

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Seyed’s Notes & Highlights

Book cover for Aristotle: The Desire to Understand

Aristotle: The Desire to Understand by Jonathan Lear

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All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves; and above all others the sense of sight. For not only with a view to action, ...more

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Seyed’s Quotes

“I am seized by two contradictory feelings: there is so much beauty in the world it is incredible that we are ever miserable for a moment; there is so much shit in the world that it is incredible we are ever happy for a moment.”
― Zadie Smith, Feel Free: Essays

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“Between propriety and joy choose joy.”
― Zadie Smith, Feel Free: Essays

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“If one could know whether among that glittering host there were here and there other spirit-inhabited grains of rock and metal, whether man’s blundering search for wisdom and for love was a sole and insignificant tremor, or part of a universal movement!”
― Olaf Stapledon, Star Maker

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“A propensity to hope and joy is real riches: One to fear and sorrow, real poverty.”
― David Hume, Essays: Moral, Political and Literary

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“The true goal of human activity was the creation of a world-wide community of awakened and intelligently creative persons, related by mutual insight and respect, and by the common task of fulfilling the potentiality of the human spirit on earth.”
― Olaf Stapledon, Star Maker

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