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"What's crazy is the parallels between this book and the points tolstoy is making in war and peace. humans are designed for causal thinking and will jump to the simplest explanation without understanding or considering that, often, there are a myriad of factors leading to something (like tolstoy's point that generals in the army don't really do shit, it's a matter of 23982938 data points)" — Jan 24, 2018 07:59PM
"What's crazy is the parallels between this book and the points tolstoy is making in war and peace. humans are designed for causal thinking and will jump to the simplest explanation without understanding or considering that, often, there are a myriad of factors leading to something (like tolstoy's point that generals in the army don't really do shit, it's a matter of 23982938 data points)" — Jan 24, 2018 07:59PM
The time for meditation, the time for decision was over, and all reason dissolved into a tumult, across which flashed the happy memories of our homes, still so near in time and space, as painful as the thrusts of a sword.
“I believed, and still do, that our bodies are our selves, that my soul is the voltage conducted through neurons and nerves, and that my spirit is my flesh.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“I have lived most of my life as a devotee of the philosophy that a man should not see two sevens in one day,”
― The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
― The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
“At an early age I learned that people make mistakes, and you have to decide if their mistakes are bigger than your love for them.”
― The Hate U Give
― The Hate U Give
“And then Jesus says, 'Well, watch this' - "
"Really? Well, watch this?"
"That's biblical language."
"If your Bible is written by Henry Montague.”
― The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
"Really? Well, watch this?"
"That's biblical language."
"If your Bible is written by Henry Montague.”
― The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
“He began to suspect another, deeper layer of time, a time of stone and cloud and tree to which the time of clocks and calendars was a gross mockery cobbled up by savages. He felt the ways of men fall from him like sundered shackles.”
― Provinces of Night
― Provinces of Night
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