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“Nobody who is alert to beauty, therefore, is without the concept of redemption—of a final transcendence of mortal disorder into a ‘kingdom of ends’. In an age of declining faith art bears enduring witness to the spiritual hunger and immortal longings of our species. Hence aesthetic education matters more today than at any previous period in history.”
― Beauty: A Very Short Introduction
― Beauty: A Very Short Introduction
“You may conquer an army with superior tactics and men, but you can conquer a nation only by conquering the hearts of the people.”
― Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
― Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
“Other things being equal, the more widely dispersed key technologies are, the more widely dispersed power will be, and the smaller the optimum scale of government.”
― The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
― The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
“To dare a thought is to risk being wrong.”
― The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
― The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
“In short, I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a pastime, if we will live simply and wisely; as the pursuits of the simpler nations are still the sports of the more artificial. It is not necessary that a man should earn his living by the sweat of his brow, unless he sweats easier than I do.”
― Walking
― Walking
Jack’s 2025 Year in Books
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