“Become who you are!”
― Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
― Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.”
― The Brothers Karamazov
― The Brothers Karamazov
“There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.”
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Classics and the Western Canon
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This is a group to read and discuss those books generally referred to as “the classics” or “the Western canon.” Books which have shaped Western though ...more
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