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“When the point of education becomes the production of credentials rather than the cultivation of knowledge, it forfeits the motive recognized by Aristotle: "All human beings by nature desire to know.”
― Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
― Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― The Uses of Literature
― The Uses of Literature
“Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.”
― Sexing the Cherry
― Sexing the Cherry
“...if we follow the traces of our own actions to their source, they intimate some understanding of the good life. This understanding may be hard to articulate; bringing it more fully into view is the task of moral inquiry. Such inquiry may be helped along by practical activities in company with others, a sort of conversation in deed. In this conversation lies the potential of work to bring some measure of coherence to our lives.”
― Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
― Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
Christopher’s 2024 Year in Books
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994 books
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592 books
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129 friends
1,525 books
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503 books
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29 books
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45 friends
163 books
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43 friends
1,090 books
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44 friends
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