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“The joy of learning is as indispensable in study as breathing is in running. Where it is lacking there are no real students, but only poor caricatures of apprentices who, at the end of their apprenticeship, will not even have a trade.”
― Simone Weil

tags: apprenticeship, joy, learning

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“The storied self knows that self is not enough.”
― Richard Kearney, Poetics of Imagining: Modern and Post-modern

tags: individualism, narrativity

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“Vengeance is like a fire. The more it devours, the hungrier it gets.”
― J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace

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“Systematic reasoning is something we could not, as a species or as individuals, possibly do without. But neither, if we are to remain sane, can we possibly do without direct perception, the more unsystematic the better, of the inner and outer worlds into which we have been born.”
― Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

tags: philosophy

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“Distance is the soul of the beautiful.”
― Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

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What is Philosophy? Why is it important? How do you use it? This group looks at these questions and others: ethics, government, economics, skepticism, ...more

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Can't remember the title of a book you read? Come search our bookshelves and discussion posts. If you don’t find it there, post a description on our U ...more

Art, Theory and Literature of the Grotesque — 101 members — last activity May 05, 2009 04:30PM
A group to discuss, discover, and perhaps even re-introduce this potent way of looking at the world. Subject to include but not limited to: The His ...more

The Bibliotherapists' Book Club — 2 members — last activity May 30, 2019 08:02PM
A compilation of reading material to add to one's ever expanding reading list, aimed at enriching the understanding and practice of psychiatry. ...more