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“Sometimes, in doing philosophy, one just wants to utter an inarticulate sound.”
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“I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind...
to Rabbi Herbert Goldstein (1929)”
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to Rabbi Herbert Goldstein (1929)”
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“How gullible are you? Is your gullibility located in some "gullibility center" in your brain? Could a neurosurgeon reach in and perform some delicate operation to lower your gullibility, otherwise leaving you alone? If you believe this, you are pretty gullible, and should perhaps consider such an operation.”
― Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
― Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
“The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.”
― The Basis of Morality
― The Basis of Morality
“I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.”
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Gustav’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Gustav’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
90 books
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2 friends
11,410 books
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56 friends
4,156 books
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39 friends
698 books
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109 friends
44 books
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59 friends
1,403 books
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85 friends
1,630 books
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92 books
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10 friends
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Art, Biography, Classics, Cookbooks, Fantasy, History, Music, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Religion, Science, Science fiction, and Spirituality
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