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Guns, Germs And Steel • Jared Diamond, Ph.D. (UCLA)“To demand of strength that it should not express itself as strength, that it should not be a desire to overcome, a desire to throw down, a desire to become master, a thirst for enemies and resistances and triumphs, is just as absurd as to demand of weakness that it should express itself as strength.”
Genealogy of Morals • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche“The aphorism, the apophthegm, in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of "eternity"; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book-- what everyone else does not say in a book.”
Twilight of the Idols • Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche“I think that the philosopher must, for his own purposes, carry methodological strictness to an extreme when he is investigating and pursuing his truths, but when he is ready to enunciate them and give them out, he ought to avoid the cynical skill with which some scientists, like a Hercules at the fair, amuse themselves by displaying to the public the biceps of their technique.”
History as a System • Jose Ortega y Gasset“On the fates of past societies facing problems of sustainability.”
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed • Jared Diamond