Often times I read multiple books at the same time. I usually always have a book in progress on my kindle, one on my desk, and another floating around somewhere between my nightstand or day bag. While I can’t say that this makes my reading any faster, one thing it does do is give me an opportunity to compare different things books say, or in the case of books on a particular area of philosophy, understand their particular philosophical application as it pertains to situations in another book.

I know I haven’t written much here recently, most of it has been going into my physical commonplace book. I have, however, taken some time to update my quotes page with some of the quotes pulled from books and articles that I’ve recently read. A lot of these get written down in my commonplace book as I draw connections (either in writing or sometimes in drawing) between different sources. Without context or reading some quotes may not be as useful to others, but there is beauty in wordplay regardless.

I think this quote sums up my feelings about social media, and especially about political discussions on social media: … the masters smile at you with superior assurance, but death is in their hearts. They tell you they suited the apparatus to the circumstances, but you notice that from now on they can only suit themselves to the apparatus. — Martin Buber in I and Thou Which happens to coincide with this quote from another book I recently finished: