“My ambition is handicapped by laziness”
― Factotum
― Factotum
“... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them.
(Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)”
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(Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)”
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“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
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“Philosophy ... is a science, and as such has no articles of faith; accordingly, in it nothing can be assumed as existing except what is either positively given empirically, or demonstrated through indubitable conclusions.”
― Parerga and Paralipomena
― Parerga and Paralipomena
Vinay’s 2025 Year in Books
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