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“Our educational institutions are thronged these days by idealistic resenters who denounce competition in literature as in life, but the aesthetic and the agonistic are one, according to all the ancient Greeks, and to Burckhardt and Nietzsche, who recovered this truth.”
― The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
― The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages
“O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams."
Which dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.”
― Hamlet
Which dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.”
― Hamlet
“At every period of history, people have believed things that were just ridiculous, and believed them so strongly that you risked ostracism or even violence by saying otherwise. If our own time were any different, that would be remarkable. As far as I can tell it isn't.”
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“Which road, which road did you take
That brought you here at last?
No road, no road did I take.
I leaped, I leaped from dream to dream.
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That brought you here at last?
No road, no road did I take.
I leaped, I leaped from dream to dream.
”
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“How fleeting, how brief, how fragile is the life of a man, and how subject to misfortune, assailed already by a multitude of diseases and accidents, buildings which collapse, shipwrecks, earthquakes, lightning! We do not need to add war to our woes, and yet it causes more woe than all the others.”
― The Education of a Christian Prince with the Panegyric for Archduke Philip of Austria
― The Education of a Christian Prince with the Panegyric for Archduke Philip of Austria
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