Reason 100000 buying from used books store is better than buying new:

Discovering old annotations.

Who was this reader? What struck them about this paragraph? Why’d they stop reading? Did they too find the title and cover irresistibly intriguing?

When debating a topic, people often assume that a dismantling of the opponent’s idea constitutes a victory, but that’s not the case.

As J.D. Salinger writes in his novel Franny and Zooey:

“For a point of objection, however eloquent, is only as good as it is applicable.”

"Pretending in unending joy,
to hate to be alone."

“It's frightening to think that you might not know something, but more frightening to think that, by and large, the world is run by people who have faith that they know exactly what is going on.”
Amos Tversky

"I find myself unable to say things like this: basic, well-known facts, but spoken with the grand air of revealing a hidden truth. He seems to do it for a living.”

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"The doing of something well is better when it is more difficult.”

“The world is not a solid continent of facts sprinkled by a few lakes of uncertainties, but a vast ocean of uncertainties speckled by a few islands of calibrated and stabilized forms.”

-Philosopher Bruno Latour

Saying “you’ll find the time if you really care about it” is bad advice.

By finding time in your life for one thing, you don’t realize you’re pushing another thing out the window until you look around and realize it’s long gone.

It doesn’t matter how much you care, there’s only so much time.

“We have provisions. But what will the press say...Won’t they accuse us of having abused the situation by eating too well?”

Adrien de Gerlache, while stranded in the Antarctic 1898

Starved himself and his crew just get his 15 minutes of fame

We’re the same attention hungry fools we’ve always been

“It is in vain to say that human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility:

they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it”

-Jane Eyre