Lukas op de Beke

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Lukas.

https://www.goodreads.com/lukasodbeke

How the West Stol...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Selected Letters ...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
The Consolation o...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
See all 5 books that Lukas is reading…
Loading...
David Foster Wallace
“If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don't bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties, who please rest assured are not dumb, and who are keenly aware that it is in their interests to keep you disgusted and bored and cynical and to give you every possible reason to stay at home doing one-hitters and watching MTV on primary day. By all means stay home if you want, but don't bullshit yourself that you're not voting. In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.”
David Foster Wallace, Up, Simbal!: 7 Days on the Trail of an Anticandidate

John Locke
“There cannot be any thing so disingenuous, so misbecoming a gentleman or any one who pretends to be a rational creature, as not to yield to plain reason and the conviction of clear arguments." John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education.”
John Locke

William Blake
“The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”
William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Isaac Asimov
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
Isaac Asimov

Zaman Ali
“Nothing is good enough; we must know and have it all.”
Zaman Ali, EVIDENCE To Know and Have It All?

year in books
csillag...
276 books | 142 friends

Nick Imrie
1,654 books | 299 friends

Marija
1,299 books | 37 friends

Hannah
591 books | 16 friends

Catherine
840 books | 50 friends

Barbara...
329 books | 51 friends

Johanne...
346 books | 29 friends

Nolan P...
418 books | 48 friends

More friends…



Polls voted on by Lukas

Lists liked by Lukas