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A leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
The Overstory
Richard Powers
I know enough to know that I know nothing, or as statisticians themselves might put it, I know enough to be confident that my epistemic capacity approaches zero.
The One and the Many
Stephen Fry
In general, I think the assumption that treating only what is accidental or nondeliberate as truly documentary is wrong; it seems guided by a general sense that conscious choices are invalid and somehow inauthentic, and what is “real” about us is what we appear to do involuntarily, and not a matter of how we try to exercise our will. It puts forward voyeurism as the only adequate truth procedure, as if to know yourself you need to observe yourself unaware, get outside the lying deceptions of consciousness to see how you really are. You need to let how the world sees you be determinative.
Another Three Things
Rob Horning
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