Alcuin Press

A collection of Useful Knowledge that built Western Civilization. A project dedicated to Alcuin, who took Rome's embers of education & lit up Europe's Dark Ages

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I spent many hours collecting 100 Books that Built Western Civilization

Everything from Herodotus and Homer to Spengler and Sowell

The whole collection is on our site and you can easily buy them

>Linked below

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“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”

― Rudyard Kipling

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Niels Bohr:

“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”

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Thomas Aquinas, the obvious conundrum with mass immigration

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"If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good."

— Thomas Watson Jr

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Andrew Carnegie, hmm

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Charlie Munger, excellent advice to college grads entering the real world

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“Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.”

— Thomas Sowell

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“If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.”

―George Orwell

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“Study microeconomics, game theory, psychology, persuasion, mathematics, and computers.”

— @naval

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Lee Smith, you know it's true

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"Only ideas won by walking have any value."

—Friedrich Nietzsche

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"You may have noticed that the books you really love are bound together by a secret thread. You know very well what is the common quality that makes you love them, though you cannot put it into words."

— C.S. Lewis

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Carl Jung, loneliness deconstructed

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Henry Ford, so true good sir

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“Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.”

— John Waters

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“Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.”

— John Waters

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Build physical libraries. Buy physical books.

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Build physical libraries. Buy physical books.

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This diagram could change your life

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“Always remember, your focus determines your reality.”

— George Lucas

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Maybe not what you'd expect from Wernher von Braun