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Understanding the Self
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Cyril Connolly said that literature is writing meant to be read twice—everything else is mere journalism.
Ryan Holiday • Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work that Lasts
Reasons and Persons, which Will considers one of the most important books written in the 20th century.
Timothy Ferriss • Tools Of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
The Uilsa story reveals his strong, almost violent emotional side and his ability to tap the Dionysian spirit; the ethics essay reflects his lifelong interest not in epistemology but in ethics. Already his question is not “What can I know?” but “How should I live?”10
Robert D. Richardson • Emerson: The Mind on Fire
The Being of Platonic philosophy
Aldous Huxley • The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell
Henry also serves a number of important functions in the overall structure of the novel. He greatly advances the parody through the elaborate Gothic fantasy he jokingly offers to Catherine, a fantasy that represents the fullest exposition in the novel of the absurdities of the Gothic horror genre and makes her subsequent delusions more plausible. H
... See moreDavid M. Shapard • The Annotated Northanger Abbey
Russell’s Foundations of Logical Atomism, to which Wittgenstein had been responding in the Tractatus.