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I am the spirit that denies forever!
And rightly so! What has arisen from the void
Deserves to be annihilated.
It would be best if nothing ever would arise.
And thus what you call havoc,
deadly sin, or briefly stated: Evil,
that is my proper element.
(1340)
( Notes on Studierzimmer/ Faust’s Study )

The neighbors also came out to see him run; and as he ran, some laughed and some cried after him to return. There were two that resolved to fetch him back by force. The name of one was Obstinate, and the other Pliable. They soon overtook him and tried to persuade him to go back home. But he said, “That can by no means be: you dwell in the City of ( Read more... )

Oh, happy is he who still can hope in our day
To breathe the truth while plunged in seas of error!
What we don’t know is really what we need,
And what we know is of no use to us whatever!
(1070)
( Notes on Vor Dem Tor/Before The Gate )

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( Steven Pinker- The Blank Slate )

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Just showing off my latest acquisitions:
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Now I know way more than I ever needed to know about agricultural practices on medieval Greenland, thanks to Jared Diamond's Collapse. I'm supposed to be done by that book by tomorrow, since it's my AP Environmental Science "independent reading" project. I'm pretty close to finishing now.

Despite what I had read about Collapse in some conservative ( Read more... )

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