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A self-imposed double obligation was formed, firstly to use my skills for the betterment of other people, and secondly to justify the existence of my mother. I was beginning to put shape on my future.
“Joy is a man's passage from a lesser to a greater perfection.”
― Ethics
― Ethics
“Ik wist niets te zeggen, de zinnen stapelden zich op achter mijn tanden en ik kraamde alleen maar onzin uit. Of ik zweeg, zweeg in alle talen en luisterde of ik in de stilte aan haar kant geluiden of stemmen op de achtergrond kon opvangen die konden verklaren waarom ze ineens zo kort aangebonden was.”
― Max, Mischa & Tetoffensiven
― Max, Mischa & Tetoffensiven
“Spinoza is not to be read, he is to be studied; you must approach him as you would approach Euclid, recognizing that in these brief two hundred pages a man has written down his lifetime's thought with stoic sculptury of everything superfluous.”
― The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
― The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
“Mens zijn is een fulltime baan, max”
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“To be sure, man’s search for meaning may arouse inner tension rather than inner equilibrium. However, precisely such tension is an indispensable prerequisite of mental health.”
― Man's Search for Meaning
― Man's Search for Meaning
Kevin ’s 2025 Year in Books
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