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Tristan Silva II
is on page 57 of 264
Still going strong. It’s a very hopeful book. While explaining that the intellectual life commits one to many daunting sacrifices, Sertillanges’s writing is beautiful, and makes the ideal conditions for a life of study sound like heaven.
— 17 hours, 36 min ago
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Tristan Silva II
is on page 41 of 264
Really great. Fourth section of the second chapter about the intellectual virtues is about bodily health. I really love that 106 years ago, “go touch grass” was needed advice. “Live as much as possible in the open air.”
— Jan 23, 2026 07:01AM
Tristan Silva II
is on page 10 of 264
I started this as a pdf—it’s already so good, I had to buy it & am currently waiting on the physical copy to come in so I can read it properly. “Is it not a sacrilege to play with the questions that dominate life & death, with mysterious nature, with God—to achieve some literary or philosophical celebrity at the expense of the true & independently of the true?” Banger.
— Jan 16, 2026 06:20AM
