“In the West, of course, God has been dead for some time. What remains is religion as social belief, which is at best a moral code and at worst social etiquette.”
― Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West
― Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West
“To translate is never simple. To translate is to betray at the borders, it’s to cheat, it’s to trade one sentence for another. To translate is one of the only human activities in which one is required to lie about the details to convey the truth at large. To translate is to risk understanding better than others that the truth about a word is not single, but double, even triple, quadruple, or quintuple. To translate is to distance oneself from God’s truth, which, as everyone knows or believes, is single.”
― At Night All Blood is Black
― At Night All Blood is Black
“You can tell me. A man can tell a naked woman anything.”
― Serious Men
― Serious Men
“If two people believe in the same idea of truth, it is a delusion.”
― The Illicit Happiness of Other People
― The Illicit Happiness of Other People
“the uber map is a psychological moonshot, because it does not reduce the waiting time for a taxi but simply makes waiting 90% less frustrating”
― Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense
― Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense
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