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“Only the one who descends into the underworld rescues the beloved.”
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“The older Romans used temples as their banks, as we use banks as our temples;”
― Caesar and Christ
― Caesar and Christ
“Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the Universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is good and just and beautiful.”
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“wisdom isn’t a body of information. It’s the moral quality of knowing what you don’t know and figuring out a way to handle your ignorance, uncertainty, and limitation.”
― The Road to Character
― The Road to Character
“We frolic in our emancipation from theology, but have we developed a natural ethic—a moral code independent of religion—strong enough to keep our instincts of acquisition, pugnacity, and sex from debasing our civilization into a mire of greed, crime, and promiscuity? Have we really outgrown intolerance, or merely transferred it from religious to national, ideological, or racial hostilities?”
― The Lessons of History
― The Lessons of History
Kieran’s 2025 Year in Books
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404 books
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269 books
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