Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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they are going to Heaven anyway

The words of the Gospels and of the Manifesto may have provided equal quantities of courage and inspiration. But there are many respects in which the Manifesto is a better book to give to the young than the New Testament. For the latter document is morally flawed by its otherworldliness, by its sug…

—p.207 Philosophy and Social Hope Failed Prophecies, Glorious Hopes (201) by Richard M. Rorty
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pleonasm

Christian Socialism' is pleonastic: nowadays you cannot hope for the fraternity which the Gospels preach without hoping that democratic governments will redistribute money and opportunity in a way that the market never will.

finally remembered the meaning of this word

—p.205 Failed Prophecies, Glorious Hopes (201) by Richard M. Rorty
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difference between knowledge and hope

The inspirational value of the New Testament and the Communist Manifesto is not diminished by the fact that many millions of people were enslaved, tortured or starved to death by sincere, morally earnest people who recited passages from one or the other text in order to justifY their deeds. Memorie…

—p.204 Failed Prophecies, Glorious Hopes (201) by Richard M. Rorty
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an evitable tragedy

We should raise our children to find it intolerable that we who sit behind desks and punch keyboards are paid ten times as much as people who get their hands dirty cleaning our toilets, and a hundred times as much as those who fabricate our keyboards in the Third World. We should ensure that they w…

—p.203 Failed Prophecies, Glorious Hopes (201) by Richard M. Rorty
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