Jim O'Shaughnessy Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Dreamstate: A Conspiracy Theory
Jed McKennaJim O'Shaughnessy@StewartalsopIII I agree with Jed McKenna that Human Adulthood (being awake in the dreamstate, not from it) is the real prize. But, like you, not that I would know: "What we consider bright and beautiful in children is the inherent nature of the fully developed human, of Human Adulthood. Our… https://t.co/qdjBPwVhPP
Paperback, 2016
$19.95Member price:$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Swann's Way: Remembrance of Things Past
Marcel ProustJim O'Shaughnessy@Chad73846501 @bfcarlson “Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.” ~Marcel Proust
Paperback, 2018
$10.95Member price:$5.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Friends of Voltaire;
Evelyn Beatrice HallJim O'Shaughnessy@LynAldenContact "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" ~Evelyn Beatrice Hall attributed this to Voltaire in "The Friends of Voltaire" but the quote police have been disputing it endlessly, still agree with the sentiment
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Adventures of a Bystander
Peter DruckerJim O'Shaughnessy@rorysutherland @ContrarianJolly @michaeldsimmons I think one of Peter Drucker's best books is his "Adventures of a Bystander"
Hardcover, 2017
$190.00Member price:$180.50 + Free shipping5% off
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Uncle's Dream: "If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself"
Fyodor DostoyevskyJim O'ShaughnessyTwo thoughts from Fyodor Dostoyevsky “If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.” “Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.”
Paperback, 2019
$10.24Member price:$5.12 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Tao Te Ching: Gilded Pocket Edition
Lao TzuJim O'Shaughnessy@soclose2me "The supreme rulers are hardly known by their subjects... When their task is completed, people will say: We did it ourselves." ~Lao Tzu, "The Tao Te Ching"
Hardcover, 2020
$12.99Member price:$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Nature
Ralph Waldo EmersonJim O'Shaughnessy"There is no choice to genius." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Against the Cult of Originality: Emerson on the True Nature of Genius https://t.co/LTFKIRJV9w via @brainpicker
Paperback, 2009
$13.00Member price:$6.50 + Free shipping50% off your first bookTao Te Ching: Gilded Pocket Edition
Lao TzuJim O'Shaughnessy"Nothing in the world is as soft and yielding as water. Yet for dissolving the hard and inflexible, nothing can surpass it. The soft overcomes the hard; the gentle overcomes the rigid. Everyone knows that is true, but few can put it into practice." ~Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching… https://t.co/B4dVf4BOiU
Hardcover, 2020
$12.99Member price:$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Blame
Paul ReadJim O'ShaughnessyI especially enjoyed Paul's comments on the making it essay by @kadavy, the whole piece is worth a read. "Making It" as a Solo Creator, Student Loans, Blame Capitalism! | #194, by @p_millerd https://t.co/BRucfMS40K
Paperback, 2017
$16.99Member price:$15.29 + Free shipping10% off
Practical Mysticism
Evelyn UnderhillJim O'ShaughnessyPractical Mysticism: Evelyn Underhill's Stunning Century-Old Manifesto for Secular Transcendence and Seeing the Heart of Reality https://t.co/2JiBDfZgAU via @brainpicker
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