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“Running, like literature, like arts, helps you to remember and re-experience some of the impossible strangeness of what it means to be who and what we are, of what it means to be human.”
― Footnotes: How Running Makes Us Human
― Footnotes: How Running Makes Us Human
“Paris … is loath to surrender itself to people who are in a hurry; it belongs to the dreamers.…”
― Paris
― Paris
“Running is analogue. It is hunter-gatherer. It is Palaeo. It is linear. It is long-form thought. It is an uninterrupted conversation with yourself. It is a journey back through modernity to your body. It is a way out of technology. It is a way to be free.”
― Footnotes: How Running Makes Us Human
― Footnotes: How Running Makes Us Human
“We are out of our heads. We are in the world and of it. We are patterns of active engagement with fluid boundaries and changing components. We are distributed.”
― Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness
― Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain, and Other Lessons from the Biology of Consciousness
“The theories that drunkenness, laziness or inefficiency are the causes of poverty are so many devices invented and fostered by those who are selfishly interested in maintaining the present states of affairs, for the purpose of preventing us from discovering the real causes of our present condition.”
― The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
― The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
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