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The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking. This is a sobering fact when we consider how much has been done, and how little we have understood of what has been done.
— Martin Heidegger, What Is Called Thinking? (1954)

3w ago

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is when he compares the volume as it is with what he vowed to make it.

3w ago

It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?

1mo ago

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The Monday Media Diet with Mufaro Mutowembwa

The unexpected gift of it: when you come back to a book a year (or two, or three) later, the old marks show you who you were the last time you read it. It's like a record of how your thinking has moved.

3mo ago

Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.

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