Insomnia download of the week

It's going to be a long and dirty election in the US, so here are some books for your snoozing pleasure about how to think and detect lies, if you can keep awake long enough...

Thinking as a Science by Henry Hazlitt (1894-1993)

Henry Hazlitt systematically takes the step-by-step on the process of introducing logic and context into the thinking process. The rather long chapter on "Reading and Thinking" clarifies several notions on where one needs to understand where mere knowledge acquisition ends and using reading the stimulate thinking begins.

other books you might want to check out:

1. Healy, William. "Pathological Lying, Accusation, and Swindling – A Study in Forensic Psychology" · (readers)
2. Housman, A. E.. "Application of Thought to Textual Criticism, The" (in "Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 009")
3. Carnagey (Carnegie), Dale. "Art of Public Speaking, The" · (readers) 
4. Twain, Mark. "On the Decay of the Art of Lying" (in "Short Story Collection Vol. 027") ·
5. Chesterfield, Philip Stanhope, Fourth Earl of. "Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman" · (readers) 
6. Burgess, Gelett. "Annie A. LeGrand: Lying and Fibbing" (in "Goop Directory, The")
7. Tolstoy, Leo. "Bethink Yourselves!" · (readers)
8. Watson, John B.. "Is Thinking Merely the Action of Language Mechanisms?" (in "American Psychology, 1900-1922") · (readers)
9.  Wittgenstein, Ludwig. "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus" · (readers)

 the quote of the day comes from Twain:

Lying is universal—we all do it. Therefore, the wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not an evil one; to lie for others' advantage, and not our own; to lie healingly, charitably, humanely, not cruelly, hurtfully, maliciously; to lie gracefully and graciously, not awkwardly and clumsily; to lie firmly, frankly, squarely, with head erect, not haltingly, tortuously, with pusillanimous mien, as being ashamed of our high calling. Then shall we be rid of the rank and pestilent truth that is rotting the land;