William Smith

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William’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (157)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (1018)
politics‎ (170)
modern-classics‎ (152)
popular-non-fiction‎ (132)
classics‎ (124)
biographies-memoirs‎ (87)
neuroscience-psychology‎ (79)
philosophy‎ (77)
american-history‎ (62)
european-history‎ (57)

biology‎ (54)
russian-literature‎ (54)
economics‎ (50)
science-fiction‎ (50)
miscellaneous-literature‎ (38)
medicine‎ (37)
physics‎ (32)
plays-poetry‎ (31)
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 (9)
history-of-science‎ (9)
african-history‎ (8)

ancient-history‎ (8)
essays‎ (7)
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

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

tags: corruption, dark-side, fighting, monsters, soul

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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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