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[... ] we willl adopt a view that we call model-dependent realism: the idea that a physical theory or world picture is a model (generally of a mathematical nature) and a set of rules that connect the elements of the model to observation" [p. 58]

I don't have time for those foolish games: I have a huge problem to handle. What am I do do? Death is pursuing me and life fleeing from me. Teach me some remedy for this: bring it about that I am not fleeing death and life is not fleeing me. Urge me on against what is difficult and what is inesxapable: ease up the constrictions of my time.

"...I wonder what his last years were like, in his exile at Circeii. Was he happy? When one has had power in his grasp, and has failed to hold it, and has remained alive - what does one become?" (p. 114)

"It was, I believe, because in my studies I had forgotten the world, and had begun almost to believe that philosophy was true. Liberty. I joined the cause of Brutus for a word; and I do not know what that word means. A man may live like a fool for a year and become wise in a day" (p. 89)

"shun whatever pleases the common herd, what chance has allocated. Halt with suspicion and fear before every benefit that comes by chance: both wild beasts and fish get caught when hope entices them" (p. 14)

Thoughts so far: prolix.

Inspiring read so far.