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Ankit Singh
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A truth that has merely been learnt adheres to us only as an artificial limb, a false tooth, a wax nose does, or at most like transplanted skin; but a truth won by thinking for ourself is like a natural limb: it alone really belongs to us.
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“When science has sufficiently ferreted out the forms of things, the world will be merely the raw material of whatever utopia man may decide to make.”
― The Story of Philosophy
― The Story of Philosophy
“If philosophers gave clear answers then surely the whole field would've died out with the Greeks.”
― The Fifth Science
― The Fifth Science
“if something is fragile, its risk of breaking makes anything you do to improve it or make it “efficient” inconsequential unless you first reduce that risk of breaking. As Publilius Syrus wrote, nothing can be done both hastily and safely—almost nothing.”
― Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder
― Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder
“In books “we converse with the wise, as in action with fools.” That is, if we know how to select our books. “Some books are to be tasted,” reads a famous passage, “others to be swallowed, and some to be chewed and digested”; all these groups forming, no doubt, an infinitesimal portion of the oceans and cataracts of ink in which the world is daily bathed and poisoned and drowned.”
― The Story of Philosophy
― The Story of Philosophy
“The most hated sort of such exchange is . . . usury, which makes a gain out of money itself, and not from its natural use. For money was intended as an instrument of exchange, and not as the mother of interest. This usury (tokos), which means the birth of money from money, . . . is of all modes of gain the most unnatural.”75 Money should not breed. Hence “the discussion of the theory of finance is not unworthy of philosophy; but to be engaged in finance, or in money-making, is unworthy of a free man.”
― The Story of Philosophy
― The Story of Philosophy
Ankit’s 2024 Year in Books
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