Stuart

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Stuart.


Life: A User's Ma...
Rate this book
Clear rating

progress: 
 
  (page 409 of 581)
Dec 27, 2025 07:21PM

 
The Skeptic's Ann...
Stuart is currently reading
by Steve Wells (Goodreads Author)
Rate this book
Clear rating

progress: 
 
  (2%)
Aug 16, 2024 10:35AM

 
The World: A Fami...
Stuart is currently reading
by Simon Sebag Montefiore (Goodreads Author)
bookshelves: currently-reading, history
Rate this book
Clear rating

progress: 
 
  (16%)
Dec 18, 2025 02:51AM

 
Loading...
Ray Kurzweil
“If these biochemical phenomena sound similar to those of the fight-or-flight syndrome, they are, except that here we are running toward something or someone; indeed, a cynic might say toward rather than away from danger. The changes are also fully consistent with those of the early phases of addictive behavior. The Roxy Music song “Love Is the Drug” is quite accurate in describing this state (albeit the subject of the song is looking to score his next fix of love).”
Ray Kurzweil, How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed

Sam Harris
“It is always now. This might sound trite, but it is the truth. It’s not quite true as a matter of neurology, because our minds are built upon layers of inputs whose timing we know must be different. But it is true as a matter of conscious experience. The reality of your life is always now. And to realize this, we will see, is liberating. In fact, I think there is nothing more important to understand if you want to be happy in this world. But we spend most of our lives forgetting this truth—overlooking it, fleeing it, repudiating it. And the horror is that we succeed. We manage to avoid being happy while struggling to become happy, fulfilling one desire after the next, banishing our fears, grasping at pleasure, recoiling from pain—and thinking, interminably, about how best to keep the whole works up and running.”
Sam Harris

Lawrence Wright
“Because David’s mother, Loretta, refused to sign up for that, she and Ron agreed to divorce. She continued in Scientology, rising to the summit as an OT VIII. She worked as an accountant for the law firm of Greta Van Susteren, the television commentator, and her husband, John Coale, both Scientologists, who maintain a mansion on Clearwater Beach.”
Lawrence Wright, Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief

Diogenes of Sinope
“And at last, becoming a complete misanthrope, he used to live, spending his time in walking about the mountains; feeding on grasses and plants, and in consequence of these habits, he was attacked by the dropsy, and so then he returned to the city, and asked the physicians, in a riddle, whether they were able to produce a drought after wet weather. And as they did not understand him, he shut himself up in a stable for oxen, and covered himself with cow-dung, hoping to cause the wet to evaporate from him, by the warmth that this produced. And as he did himself no go good in this way, he died, having lived seventy years;”
Diogenes, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers

Reza Aslan
“Thus began the long process of transforming Jesus from a revolutionary Jewish nationalist into a peaceful spiritual leader with no interest in any earthly matter. That was a Jesus the Romans could accept, and in fact did accept three centuries later when the Roman emperor Flavius Theodosius (d. 395) made the itinerant Jewish preacher’s movement the official religion of the state, and what we now recognize as orthodox Christianity was born.”
Reza Aslan, Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth

year in books
Leslie
1,071 books | 95 friends

Maggie
454 books | 123 friends

Onsetsu...
1,170 books | 414 friends

Melissa
973 books | 87 friends

Dawnell...
2,313 books | 153 friends

Michael...
35 books | 56 friends

Therese
499 books | 94 friends

Josh
260 books | 47 friends

More friends…


Polls voted on by Stuart

Lists liked by Stuart