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Lean is Currently Reading

Lean is currently reading

Draußen feiern die Leute

by Sven Pfizenmaier

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Sep 10, 2025 09:40AM

Lean is currently reading

Sind Flüsse Lebewesen?

by Robert Macfarlane (Goodreads Author)

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Jun 30, 2025 08:54AM

“At that time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead tree, with nothing to do but look up at the sky flowing overhead, little by little I would have gotten used to it.”
― Albert Camus, The Stranger

tags: existentialism, meursault, profound

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“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

tags: identity, opinions

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“The map is not the territory.”
― Alfred Korzybski

tags: cybernetics, metaphysics, philosophy

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“An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory.”
― E F Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered

tags: practice, theory

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“Der Verfall des Schenkens spiegelt sich in der peinlichen Erfindung der Geschenkartikel, die bereits darauf angelegt sind, daß man nicht weiß, was man schenken soll, weil man es eigentlich gar nicht will. Diese Waren sind beziehungslos wie ihre Käufer.”
― Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life

tags: adorno, aphorismus, nr-21

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