William Smith

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William’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (154)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (1056)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
politics‎ (175)
modern-classics‎ (155)
popular-non-fiction‎ (132)
classics‎ (129)
biographies-memoirs‎ (95)
neuroscience-psychology‎ (79)
philosophy‎ (77)
american-history‎ (64)

european-history‎ (63)
russian-literature‎ (56)
science-fiction‎ (56)
biology‎ (54)
economics‎ (50)
miscellaneous-literature‎ (41)
medicine‎ (37)
plays-poetry‎ (33)
physics‎ (32)
theology-mythology‎ (29)
nature‎ (25)
children-fiction‎ (23)

uk-history‎ (22)
world-history‎ (21)
asian-history‎ (18)
horror‎ (16)
epidemiology‎ (15)
middle-eastern-history‎ (15)
mathematics‎ (14)
japanese-literature‎ (13)
russian-history‎ (12)
artificial-intelligence‎ (11)
french-history‎ (10)
essays‎ (9)

history-of-science‎ (9)
african-history‎ (8)
ancient-history‎ (8)
booker-prize‎ (5)
fantasy‎ (5)
gender-feminism‎ (5)
latin-american-history‎ (5)
oceania-history‎ (5)
sociology‎ (5)
irish-history‎ (4)
pultizer-prize‎ (4)
french-literature‎ (2)

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William’s Quotes

“In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.”
― 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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“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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