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The Magus
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There are three types of intelligent person: the first so intelligent that being called very intelligent must seem natural and obvious; the second sufficiently intelligent to see that he is being flattered, not described; the third so
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I wounder what category the author ranked himself to?
“To be part of nature was to be part of the will to live.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“Nobel laureate Max Planck, regarding consciousness as fundamental to the universe: “I regard matter as derivative from consciousness.”
― Observer
― Observer
“At the beginning of a game, there are no variations. There is only one way to set up a board. There are nine million variations after the first six moves. And after eight moves there are two hundred and eighty-eight billion different positions. And those possibilities keep growing. There are more possible ways to play a game of chess than the amount of atoms in the observable universe. So it gets very messy. And there is no right way to play; there are many ways. In chess, as in life, possibility is the basis of everything. Every hope, every dream, every regret, every moment of living.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“Never trust someone who is willingly rude to low-paid service staff”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
“And though she’d studied enough existential philosophy to believe loneliness was a fundamental part of being a human in an essentially meaningless universe, it was good to see him.”
― The Midnight Library
― The Midnight Library
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