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The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution

by Richard W. Wrangham

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Identity: The Demand for Dignity and the Politics of Resentment

by Francis Fukuyama

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Avishek’s Quotes

“Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

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“The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

tags: meaning, method, order, utility, wittgenstein

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“A personal metric: how much of the day is spent doing things out of obligation rather than out of interest?”
― Eric Jorgenson, The Almanack Of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

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“True learning must not be content with ideas, which are, in fact, signs, but must discover things in their individual truth.”
― Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

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“See, there were these two guys in a lunatic asylum... and one night, one night they decide they don't like living in an asylum any more. They decide they're going to escape! So, like, they get up onto the roof, and there, just across this narrow gap, they see the rooftops of the town, stretching away in the moon light... stretching away to freedom. Now, the first guy, he jumps right across with no problem. But his friend, his friend didn't dare make the leap. Y'see... Y'see, he's afraid of falling. So then, the first guy has an idea... He says 'Hey! I have my flashlight with me! I'll shine it across the gap between the buildings. You can walk along the beam and join me!' B-but the second guy just shakes his head. He suh-says... He says 'Wh-what do you think I am? Crazy? You'd turn it off when I was half way across!”
― Alan Moore, Batman: The Killing Joke

tags: joker-batman-joke

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