Sign in with Facebook
“How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the order is imagined.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“The celebrated Parisian doctor Professor Xavier Bichat developed a fully materialist theory of the human body and mind in his lectures Physiological Researches on Life and Death, translated into English in 1816. Bichat defined life bleakly as ‘the sum of the functions by which death is resisted”
― The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
― The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
“At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.”
― A History of Reading
― A History of Reading
“Culture tends to argue that it forbids only that which is unnatural. But from a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible is by definition also natural. A truly unnatural behaviour, one that goes against the laws of nature, simply cannot exist, so it would need no prohibition.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Stephan’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Stephan’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1 book
|
8 friends
0 books
|
1 friend
0 books
|
11 friends
238 books
|
112 friends
20 books
|
48 friends
1 book
|
41 friends
81 books
|
84 friends
1 book
|
14 friends
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Classics, Contemporary, Crime, Fiction, History, Memoir, Non-fiction, Psychology, Religion, and Science
Polls voted on by Stephan
Lists liked by Stephan
