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"Good but a little too “introductory”… superficial perhaps? But still worthwhile." — Mar 21, 2026 08:27AM
"Good but a little too “introductory”… superficial perhaps? But still worthwhile." — Mar 21, 2026 08:27AM
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"Fascinating… complex, illuminating. Amazing human being." — Feb 13, 2026 09:37AM
"Fascinating… complex, illuminating. Amazing human being." — Feb 13, 2026 09:37AM
“To put is still more plainly: the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath-retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet.”
― The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
― The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
“Everything that is said is said by an observer.”
― Observing Systems
― Observing Systems
“Entropy is the price of structure.”
― Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature
― Order Out of Chaos: Man's New Dialogue with Nature
“Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.”
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“And indeed, it has been suggested that the defining moves in Chinese speculation work on a very different model, where words are part of, say, an exemplary skill-practice, meant to guide behavior in such a way as to alter perception and evaluation, rather than to describe what is really so or what is really good.”
― Ironies of Oneness and Difference: Coherence in Early Chinese Thought; Prolegomena to the Study of Li
― Ironies of Oneness and Difference: Coherence in Early Chinese Thought; Prolegomena to the Study of Li
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