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A solid routine fosters a well-worn groove for one’s mental energies and helps stave off the tyranny of moods. This was one of William James’s favorite subjects. He thought you wanted to put part of your life on autopilot; by forming good
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“If reason ruled the world would history even exist?”
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“I would say that the ability of people to agree on matters of fact not immediately visible—states of affairs removed from them in space and time—ramped up from a baseline of approximately zero to a pretty high level around the time of the scientific revolution and all that, and stayed there and became more globally distributed up through the Cronkite era, and then dropped to zero incredibly quickly when the Internet came along.”
― Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
― Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
“An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.”
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The Peninsula Book Club
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Max’s 2025 Year in Books
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