“of "Beyond Good and Evil," which is a stunning book. And that was really fun to take pieces of it”
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“"We Who Wrestle With God" and it's of the same sort. It's endlessly analyzable.”
“and there's a good book called "The User Illusion," which is the best book on consciousness that I ever read.”
“in "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" of the Ubermensch. That's another one that's very easy to misinterpret”
“and that that would kill, he said this in will to power, that that would kill tens of millions”
“And Dostoevsky did the same thing in his book, "Demons." And so this is the thing”
“And like, Solzhenitsyn pointed that out too when he was struggling with the idea of good versus evil.”
“So Bilbo the Hobbit, he's a kind of an ordinary everyman. He lives in a very constrained and orderly and secure world.”
“In "Notes From Underground," Dostoevsky made a very telling observation.”
“of my previous books, 'cause I wrote a chapter called compare yourself to who you are”
“And I read a book called "Angela's Ashes" that was written by an Irish author, Frank McCourt,”
“That was like Dante's Inferno level down. It was a long-term, psychiatric inpatient ward.”
“It made "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest" look like a romantic comedy.”