Krishaan Khubchand
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"A bit too literary/unstructured for my liking atm, which makes it hard to think about concretely. Some beautiful lines/paragraphs tho." Jul 28, 2018 07:23PM

 
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"McLuhan is the best type of writer. He’s a Rorschach test. When I’m in a certain mindspace, I’ll see one set of interpretations. When I’m in another mindspace, I’ll see another.

I look forward to reviewing my notes before moving forward in the book."
Jun 02, 2019 01:08PM

 
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"When a culture is decadent, it means that the satarist is happy, whilst the rest are helpless.

Apparently Erasmus & Martin Luther’s 16th Century shared that attribute with ours."
Jun 02, 2019 01:01PM

 
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William  James
“Thus, when a superior intellect and a psychopathic temperament coalesce...in the same individual, we have the best possible conditions for the kind of effective genius that gets into the biographical dictionaries. Such men do not remain mere critics and understanders with their intellect. Their ideas posses them, they inflict them, for better or worse, upon their companions or their age.”
William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

Rachel Held Evans
“We tend to take whatever’s worked in our particular set of circumstances (big family, small family, AP, Ezzo, home school, public school) and project that upon everyone else in the world as the ideal.”
Rachel Held Evans, A Year of Biblical Womanhood

William  James
“Few of us are not in some way infirm, or even diseased; and our very infirmities help us unexpectedly. In the psychopathic temperament we have the emotionality which is the sine qua non of moral perception; we have the intensity and tendency to emphasis which are the essence of practical moral vigor; and we have the love of metaphysics and mysticism which carry one's interests beyond the surface of the sensible world. What, then, is more natural than that this temperament should introduce one to regions of religious truth, to corners of the universe, which your robust Philistine type of nervous system, forever offering its biceps to be felt, thumping its breast, and thanking Heaven that it hasn't a single morbid fiber in its composition, would be sure to hide forever from its self-satisfied possessors?”
William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience: Full Text of 1901 Edition

Rebecca Solnit
“How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?" (Plato)
The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other side of that transformation. Love, wisdom, grace, inspiration- how do you go about finding these things that are in some ways about extending the boundaries of the self into unknown territory, about becoming someone else?”
Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Reality is what people who lack vision see.”
Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Confessions of a Misfit

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