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The Affluent Society

by John Kenneth Gailbraith

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Զարթօնք Ա. հատոր

by Մալխաս

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The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Modern Library Classics) by Jacob Burckhardt

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Burckhardt was also pained by Friedrich Nietzsche’s praise of the amoral Renaissance man as the model of the future superman, for the historian was a strict moralist who never tired of pointing out that power was evil and that whatever ...more

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“Всегда удивляюсь тому, сколько слюны у простого народа.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Despair

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“It was the outstanding fact about St. Thomas [Aquinas] that he loved books and lived on books ... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page I ever read’.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Saint Thomas Aquinas

tags: humility, pride

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“For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: atheism, god, religion

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“It is the dead, not the living, who make the longest demands.”
― Sophocles, Antigone

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“Concepts create idols; only wonder grasps anything.”
― Gregory of Nyssa, The Life of Moses

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