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“Charles II once invited the members of the Royal Society to explain to him why a dead fish weighs more than the same fish alive; a number of subtle explanations were offered to him. He then pointed out that it does not.”
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“Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary European and North American culture, is arguably a good deal more effective in neutralizing its effects than either religious censorship or political terror”
― Edith Stein: A Philosophical Prologue, 1913-1922
― Edith Stein: A Philosophical Prologue, 1913-1922
“we are never more (and sometimes less) than the co-authors of our own narratives.”
― After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory
― After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory
“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”
― The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination
― The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination
“Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.”
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Jorge Luis Borges
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Borges, of all the authors, does not yet have a group on Goodreads. What? He does. Now.
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