(Part 3) Top products from r/QuotesPorn

You say that like the defense industry isn't worth hundreds of billions of dollars annually, or that Arundhati Roy isn't an award-winning author who's book has sold millions of copies and has been translated into 40 languages.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/sofex-the-business-of-war-full-length

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arundhati_Roy#Advocacy

By all means, please link to your published works so we can know that you're in a position to judge Ms. Roy. I'm sure you're busy winning literary prizes and not wanking and playing video games. Certainly you're not a nameless, faceless internet nobody who's highlight every day is the small dopamine rush you get from upvoted comments on Reddit?

Could you post your collection of published essays or articles so we can know you're older than 14 yourself, Spencer? Or is it Chad?


https://www.amazon.com/Algebra-Infinite-Justice-Arundhati-Roy/dp/014302907X

Cheers man. I've just finished the book Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! and I'll be going on to the one you've recommended next :)

http://www.amazon.com/Surely-Feynman-Adventures-Curious-Character/dp/0393316041/ref=pd_sim_b_2/175-5309930-4744562?ie=UTF8&refRID=1DCAC154J2CFHZSADHPZ

Please read this book! It's improved my life tremendously and it could help you just as much! <3

• The Life Changing Magic of Not Giving a Fuck - https://www.amazon.com/dp/0316270725/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_Q9Urzb50QNRXP

Neither author was wrong, they were just targeted at different systems.

Read 1984 and then Lian Heng's Son of the Revolution, a first hand account of a man growing up in Maoist China. Be prepared to literally drop your jaw at how accurate Orwell was.

Then read Brave New World and turn on MTV for five minutes. The next time somebody tells you either book is overrated, laugh and walk away.

IIRC I. F. Stone's thesis was that Socrates had actually fomented rebellion. There had been some sort of coup (or attempted coup) and there was speculation that he'd actually been an instigator.

I have no idea at this point whether that's actually plausible given the historical data, but it's interesting to contemplate.

Plato's account obviously lauds Socrates and makes his trial out to be pure persecution of free thought, but we should take that with a grain of salt, right?

Banksy didn't originate that quote either. He just re-publicized an age-old idea. Much like everything he does.

You should read this book some time. Published in 1989 and says the same thing as the Banksy quote. And chances are, somebody else said it before then too...but we can safely assume that they weren't some sensationalized graffiti artist.

Friggen love Petit Prince by him. If you haven't read it... go pick it up. Even if you don't know French, it's been translated in a brazillion languages. They have a movie coming out next Fall too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9L1zRAlYYQ

Greek.

Epicureanism is the first modern way of thinking about the world. It's worth a lot of further study. He had an enormous influence on the development of the modern world.

If you want to read more, The Swerve by Greenblatt is a good if somewhat hyperbolic introduction.

If you like this quote, you may like this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Sum-Forty-Afterlives-David-Eagleman/dp/0307389936

Whoops. Good catch, thank you for the gentle correction.

It seems the issue of attribution in regard to this particular piece isn't entirely a new confusion.

The quote is from the prologue of Niel Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business.

>the Hebrews had only one God for every aspect of their lives

This was not true until the Deuteronomists shook things up, if I am not mistaken. They ordered all other gods' temples destroyed and installed Yahweh as the one true god. Yahweh went from being one god of many to the only god at that time, and the Bible was rewritten (retconned!) to reflect as such.

For instance, Abraham once met with El Shaddai, but this was retconned to be a meeting with Yahweh. Where before it was a different entity entirely, after the retcon El Shaddai is just another name/description for Yahweh.

Further reading here

Highly recommend reading his book:

The Last Lecture https://www.amazon.com/dp/0340977736/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_yL0YDbT5V7G5R

I am not handing it off, I am telling you very specifically what you can do to help. I quote you three separate studies that show interaction is the key to changing racists attitudes. I gave you a way to get in touch with people who want to work on these issues. What more do you want from me? I can't say anything here to change your mind, social psychologists have shown this in studies time and again, if you want to explore that topic see part III of this book by Dr. Jonathon Haidt.

If you really want to understand the concepts behind this quote, read this book.

It will blow your mind.

This book explores the idea a bit if you're open to it: http://www.amazon.com/The-Silence-Animals-Progress-Modern/dp/0374534667

The idea of silence features heavily in philosophical discussions around subject/object dualism and levels of consciousness. In some views, to be silent is to recognise the indivisibility of all things and therefore our "oneness" with the universe.

This book explains a lot.

It is in this book and was also in this NY times article.

That's fair. I think the reason quotes like the above attract people because they are digestible and easy to think about. It's obvious that Conor McGregor would not suggest everyone literally starts at the same stage and is making excuses but for the vast majority of people hard work IS the answer.

Michelangelo said something along the lines of, "If people knew how hard I worked, they would not say I was talented." I read the quote years ago and thought nothing of it, "blah blah another artist saying he's not naturally gifted"...then I read his biography and it damn near made me cry to see how hard he worked. (if you're interested, it was a novelized but extremely well-researched bio, The Agony and the Ecstasy )