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(page 140 of 785)
"This book is HEAVY in abstraction. It’s so easy to get lost. It’s kinda cool sometimes cause you get the see the clever way he goes about filling the empty gaps left in Hume’s Treatise using logic. It really gives you such a strong appreciation for Reason. Hope I can get through this lmao. It’s so difficult, man." — Nov 07, 2023 10:02AM
"This book is HEAVY in abstraction. It’s so easy to get lost. It’s kinda cool sometimes cause you get the see the clever way he goes about filling the empty gaps left in Hume’s Treatise using logic. It really gives you such a strong appreciation for Reason. Hope I can get through this lmao. It’s so difficult, man." — Nov 07, 2023 10:02AM
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(page 199 of 624)
"My god this stuff is impossible to read. I took a break to read some other stuff because this was getting to dense and now that I’m back it’s gotten infinitely harder. I completely forgot what all those signifiers mean. I never knew Marx would be so scientific when I started reading this stuff three years ago." — Jul 19, 2023 12:26PM
"My god this stuff is impossible to read. I took a break to read some other stuff because this was getting to dense and now that I’m back it’s gotten infinitely harder. I completely forgot what all those signifiers mean. I never knew Marx would be so scientific when I started reading this stuff three years ago." — Jul 19, 2023 12:26PM


“The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.”
― Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
― Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison

“A critique does not consist in saying that things aren't good the way they are. It consists in seeing on just what type of assumptions, of familiar notions, of established and unexamined ways of thinking the accepted practices are based... To do criticism is to make harder those acts which are now too easy.”
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“Where am I, or what? From what causes do I derive my existence, and to what condition shall I return? ... I am confounded with all these questions, and begin to fancy myself in the most deplorable condition imaginable, environed with the deepest darkness, and utterly deprived of the use of every member and faculty.
Most fortunately it happens, that since Reason is incapable of dispelling these clouds, Nature herself suffices to that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind, or by some avocation, and lively impression of my senses, which obliterate all these chimeras. I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends. And when, after three or four hours' amusement, I would return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strained, and ridiculous, that I cannot find in my heart to enter into them any farther.”
― An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Most fortunately it happens, that since Reason is incapable of dispelling these clouds, Nature herself suffices to that purpose, and cures me of this philosophical melancholy and delirium, either by relaxing this bent of mind, or by some avocation, and lively impression of my senses, which obliterate all these chimeras. I dine, I play a game of backgammon, I converse, and am merry with my friends. And when, after three or four hours' amusement, I would return to these speculations, they appear so cold, and strained, and ridiculous, that I cannot find in my heart to enter into them any farther.”
― An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

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