William Smith

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William’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (155)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (1080)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
politics‎ (178)
modern-classics‎ (156)
popular-non-fiction‎ (133)
classics‎ (130)
biographies-memoirs‎ (105)
philosophy‎ (83)
neuroscience-psychology‎ (81)
american-history‎ (66)

european-history‎ (66)
russian-literature‎ (56)
science-fiction‎ (56)
biology‎ (55)
economics‎ (50)
miscellaneous-literature‎ (41)
medicine‎ (37)
physics‎ (33)
plays-poetry‎ (33)
theology-mythology‎ (29)
nature‎ (26)
children-fiction‎ (23)

uk-history‎ (23)
world-history‎ (21)
asian-history‎ (18)
japanese-literature‎ (17)
horror‎ (16)
epidemiology‎ (15)
middle-eastern-history‎ (15)
mathematics‎ (14)
russian-history‎ (12)
artificial-intelligence‎ (11)
ancient-history‎ (10)
french-history‎ (10)

essays‎ (9)
history-of-science‎ (9)
african-history‎ (8)
sociology‎ (6)
booker-prize‎ (5)
fantasy‎ (5)
gender-feminism‎ (5)
latin-american-history‎ (5)
oceania-history‎ (5)
irish-history‎ (4)
pultizer-prize‎ (4)
art-history‎ (2)

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“The more stupid one is, the closer one is to reality. The more stupid one is, the clearer one is. Stupidity is brief and artless, while intelligence squirms and hides itself. Intelligence is unprincipled, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

tags: intelligence, stupidity

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“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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“I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow.”
― Woodrow Wilson

tags: brains, intelligence

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“When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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“People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

tags: animals, cruelty, mankind

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