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“We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.”
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“The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.”
― The Denial of Death
― The Denial of Death
“The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions.”
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“It may seem as though the self—your self—is the “thing” that does the perceiving. But this is not how things are. The self is another perception, another controlled hallucination, though of a very special kind.”
― Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
― Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
“[T]he mere existence of others who have radically different beliefs about the nature of
reality poses an explicit challenge to the claims of absolute truth made on behalf of one’s own
point of view, thus undermining the anxiety-buffering capacity of that world view.”
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reality poses an explicit challenge to the claims of absolute truth made on behalf of one’s own
point of view, thus undermining the anxiety-buffering capacity of that world view.”
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Andreas’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Andreas’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
153 books
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1,198 friends
1,629 books
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64 friends
640 books
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17 friends
1,171 books
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41 friends
12 books
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607 books
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160 friends
2 books
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68 friends
38 books
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17 friends
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