Sign in with Facebook
We have not as a society embraced degrowth. Instead, we’ve done something far stranger and more profound: we’ve decoupled growth—in consumption, prosperity, and our economy—from resource use.
“there are only so many targets for drugs in the body (around eight thousand potential places for drugs to work, by one estimate),”
― Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
― Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped the History of Medicine
“Stories with definitive endings don’t necessarily reflect a belief that the world makes sense, but they do reflect a belief in the power of art to make sense of it. What one finds in Jewish storytelling, though, is something really different: a kind of realism that comes from humility, from the knowledge that one cannot be true to the human experience while pretending to make sense of the world.”
― People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
― People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
“la vida es un asunto que siempre termina mal.”
― Canción de antiguos amantes
― Canción de antiguos amantes
“Ave Maria gratia plena, is “Hail Mary full of political influence.”
― Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age
― Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age
“As King Lear’s Fool put it, “They’ll have me whipp’d for speaking true; thou’lt have me whipp’d for lying, and sometimes I am whipp’d for holding my peace.”
― People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
― People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present
Philip’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Philip’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1 book
|
79 friends
14 books
|
54 friends
157 books
|
11 friends
2,599 books
|
16 friends
2,102 books
|
225 friends
722 books
|
12 friends
557 books
|
17 friends
124 books
|
1 friend
More friends…
Favorite Genres
Non-fiction and Science
Polls voted on by Philip
Lists liked by Philip
