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Strangers to Ourselves by Timothy D. Wilson Influence by Robert B. Cialdini Meditations by Marcus Aurelius Six Pillars of Self-Esteem by Nathaniel Branden The Way of the Superior Man by David Deida Buddhism without Beliefs by Stephen Batchelor Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Todd Gilbert The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate by Ted Chiang The Death of Ivan Ilych by Leo Tolstoy Anthem by Ayn Rand The Practicing Mind by Thomas M. Sterner
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Richard Rorty
“Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.”
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“Truth is what your contemporaries let you get away with.”
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tags: pragmatism, relativism, truth
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“My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law.”
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tags: atheism, atheist, civilization, descendants, future, global-civilization, hope, idealism, law, love, perfection, secular, secularist, sense-of-holy, utopia
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