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Meditations is a nice little book full of tidbits, some a short sentence, others a full page. It provides much food for thought and I will gladly return to it later with a fuller understanding of its broader context.I often saw this book described as ...more "
“The whole law of human existence consists in nothing other than a man's always being able to bow before the immeasurably great. If people are deprived of the immeasurably great, they will not live and will die in despair. The immeasurable and infinite is as necessary for man as the small planet he inhabits...”
― Demons
― Demons
“The pride that prides itself on freedom from pride is the hardest of all to bear.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.”
― The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
― The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
“Where is the harm or surprise in the ignorant behaving as the ignorant do?”
― Meditations
― Meditations
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