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| Provocative novel in many respects. My daughter picked it for our informal family book club and we haven't discussed it yet, but I'm sure it will make for a lively conversation. The main character, Natalie, is a "tradwife" (traditional wife) influenc ...more | |
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| Go Gentle is a fun read with a peculiar characteristic: the main character, Adora Hazzard, is a Stoic philosopher. Or, rather, is a woman with a PhD in philosophy who got into Stoicism and has a much easier time teaching it to others (especially kids ...more | |
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| Pragmatism is a bit of a maddening thing. It's the only original American philosophy, and yet the big three early Pragmatists - Charles Sanders Peirce, William James, and John Dewey - disagree with each other on major points (like the definition of t ...more | |
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“Better to endure pain in an honorable manner than to seek joy in a shameful one.”
― How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life
― How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life
“[T]he nature of science is not that of a steady, linear progression toward the Truth, but rather a tortuous road, often characterized by dead ends and U-turns, and yet ultimately inching toward a better, if tentative, understanding of the natural world.”
― Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk
― Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk
Topics Mentioning This Author
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| All things Fandom: 2011 Authors | 88 | 311 | Aug 29, 2011 03:43PM | |
| All things Fandom: 2013 Authors list | 18 | 92 | Aug 24, 2013 12:10PM | |
| The Challenge Fac...: Dictionary Word of the Month-August Edition | 35 | 62 | Sep 01, 2018 02:50AM | |
| 2026 Reading Chal...: Richo's Challenges to Get to 1,000 Books | 83 | 463 | Oct 28, 2018 05:12AM | |
Nothing But Readi...:
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| 2026 Reading Chal...: Richo's 365 books for 2018 | 944 | 647 | Jan 06, 2019 03:57AM | |
| 2026 Reading Chal...: Let's Turn Pages - 2018 | 2167 | 1673 | Jan 12, 2019 04:17AM | |
| 2026 Reading Chal...: Anne's 60 in 2020 | 67 | 165 | Dec 23, 2020 07:44PM |
“We should not be too confident in our belief of anything. (Cicero, Tusculan Disputations I.32)”
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“UWTB, or the Universal Will to Become. UWTB is what makes universes out of nothingness—that makes nothingness insist on becoming somethingness.”
― The Sirens of Titan
― The Sirens of Titan
“I myself don’t know the facts of these matters, but I’ve never met anyone, including the people here today, who could disagree with what I’m saying and still avoid making himself ridiculous.”
― The Socratic Method: A Practitioner's Handbook
― The Socratic Method: A Practitioner's Handbook
“Renouncing the honors at which the world aims, I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can, and, when I die, to die as well as I can. And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men to do the same.”
― The Socratic Method: A Practitioner's Handbook
― The Socratic Method: A Practitioner's Handbook
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