James Madsen

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James’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (331)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (399)
did-not-finish‎ (0)
fiction‎ (384)
nonfiction‎ (300)
speculative-fiction‎ (284)
fantasy‎ (150)
history‎ (117)
young-adult‎ (113)

science-fiction‎ (109)
religion‎ (96)
psychology‎ (82)
science‎ (77)
philosophy‎ (67)
biography‎ (57)
medicine‎ (53)
religion-christianity‎ (51)
metaphysics‎ (35)
tolkien‎ (31)

politics‎ (30)
children‎ (29)
dystopian‎ (20)
religion-lds-mormon‎ (20)
consciousness‎ (19)
sanderson‎ (14)
parapsychology‎ (12)
mythology‎ (11)
religion-judaism‎ (9)
religion-buddhism‎ (8)

humor‎ (7)
pullman‎ (7)
toxicology‎ (6)
travel‎ (6)
meditation‎ (4)
language‎ (3)
poetry‎ (1)

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James’s Quotes

“we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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“In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.”
― Carl Sagan

tags: politics, religion, science

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“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: ideas

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“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: humor

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“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: compassion, einstein, nature, philosophy

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