The library, in the open

Quotes worth keeping, with the receipts.

445 passages from 31 minds, each carrying the book, letter or talk it came from. Half the quotations on the internet are invented; none of these are.

1,812 more in the app

By topic

The same library cut the other way — whichever of these you came for, the app sorts the rest of it the same way.

The ancients

Written before the printing press and still the most quoted advice in existence. Stoics, a Taoist, a Confucian and a general.

Philosophy

The long argument about how to live, from the Academy in Athens to a Frenchman with a cigarette.

The mind

Four people who made a career of the part of you that does not report in.

Science

Physicists and a neuroscientist, on curiosity and on not fooling yourself.

Building things

Founders and investors, writing about leverage, judgement and what compounds.

Hard-won

Power, command and getting hit. Three people who learned it the expensive way.

This is the sample.

The app has 1,812 passages from 70 authors, sorted by topic, full-screen, offline, no account.

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