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I picked this up in a thrift store recently, wanting to read it to learn about the history of Iran, for reasons that should be obvious. And then the author passed away, and I was compelled even further to pick it up. Really beautifully written and il
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A collection of letters by American luminary Thomas Jefferson. Curiously, very few of them are from the period of the Revolutionary War.
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“Man has no Body distinct from his soul; for that called Body is a portion of a Soul discerned by the five senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.”
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“Of all the forms in which ideas are disseminated, the college professor lecturing his class is the slowest and the most expensive. You don't have to go to college to learn about the great ideas of Western man. If you want to learn about Milton, or Camus, or even Margaret Mead, you can find them. In paperback. In the library.”
― The case against college
― The case against college
“The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one.”
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