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A batch of the best highlights from what Tristan's read, .
Time is only created by the inadequate ability of Nature to contemplate the divine.
Philosophy 100 Essential Thinkers
Philip Stokes
Helman was producing. Unlike the Academy students, unlike the Academy Masters, Helman was writing ideas down. He was reading what we had left of the ancient knowledge and building on it with theories of his own. This would explain the odd looks I had often received when asking about him. Helman scared the Academy staff because they had no idea where he was going, and it was evident that Helman was going somewhere.
Cage of Souls
Adrian Tchaikovsky
As far as we know, universal and missionary religions began to appear only in the first millennium BC. Their emergence was one of the most important revolutions in history, and made a vital contribution to the unification of humankind, much like the emergence of universal empires and universal money.
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
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