Sign in with Facebook
to-read
(249)
currently-reading (12)
read (87)
pd (51)
sci-fi (30)
fiction (28)
philosophy (19)
currently-reading (12)
read (87)
pd (51)
sci-fi (30)
fiction (28)
philosophy (19)
biographies
(17)
depression (13)
business (10)
compsci (9)
history (9)
skills (9)
stoicism (8)
depression (13)
business (10)
compsci (9)
history (9)
skills (9)
stoicism (8)
“And I, infinitesimal being,
drunk with the great starry
void,
likeness, image of
mystery,
I felt myself a pure part
of the abyss,
I wheeled with the stars,
my heart broke loose on the wind.”
― 100 Love Sonnets
drunk with the great starry
void,
likeness, image of
mystery,
I felt myself a pure part
of the abyss,
I wheeled with the stars,
my heart broke loose on the wind.”
― 100 Love Sonnets
“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”
―
―
“Men have become the tools of their tools. Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.”
―
―
“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
― The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
― The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Mark’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Mark’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
101 books
|
102 friends
4,973 books
|
336 friends
1,309 books
|
94 friends
934 books
|
107 friends
2,337 books
|
64 friends
7 books
|
155 friends
371 books
|
63 friends
136 books
|
93 friends
More friends…
Polls voted on by Mark
Lists liked by Mark
