Tg
is currently reading
Reading for the 2nd time
Tg said:
"
Mr. Samuelson is Brilliant in synthesizing a big problem of our age ."Rather than think about ignorance, Pain, and Wretchedness; man has chosen to forget about them " Pascal
"Have we forgotten what it means to be long suffering humans ? "
Like his othe ...more "
“I wish to forget, a considerable part of every day, all mean, narrow, trivial men (and this requires usually to forego and forget all personal relations so long), and therefore I come out to these solitudes, where the problem of existence is simplified. I enter some glade in the woods, perchance, where a few weeds and dry leaves alone lift themselves above the surface of the snow, and it is as if I had come to an open window. I see out and around myself.”
― The Journal, 1837-1861
― The Journal, 1837-1861
“يظن الناس أنفسهم أحرارًا لأنهم شاعرون بإرادتهم ورغباتهم، ولكنهم يجهلون الأسباب التي أفضت بهم إلى الإرادة والرغبة”
― Ethics
― Ethics
“Many of our days should be spent, not in vain expectations and lying on our oars, but in carrying out deliberately and faithfully the hundred little purposes which every man’s genius must have suggested to him. Let not your life be wholly without an object, though it be only to ascertain the flavor of a cranberry, for it will not be only the quality of an insignificant berry that you will have tasted, but the flavor of your life to that extent, and it will be such a sauce as no wealth can buy.”
― The Journal, 1837-1861
― The Journal, 1837-1861
“Nature now, like an athlete, begins to strip herself in earnest for her contest with her great antagonist Winter. In the bare trees and twigs what a display of muscle!”
― The Journal, 1837-1861
― The Journal, 1837-1861
“Der freie Mensch denkt über nichts weniger nach als über den Tod: seine Weisheit ist nicht ein Nachsinnen über den Tod, sondern über das Leben.”
― Ethics
― Ethics
Tg’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Tg’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
More friends…
Polls voted on by Tg
Lists liked by Tg





















































