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“If God had been like a toad, you could have rid the globe of toads, but when God was like yourself, it was no good being content with stone figures — you had to kill yourself among the graves.”
― The Power and the Glory
― The Power and the Glory
“Perhaps we would not be human if the quality of our lives were much better than it is. It does not follow that the quality of human life is good.”
― The Human Predicament: A Candid Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
― The Human Predicament: A Candid Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
“If in keeping with Hegel’s insight all feeling related to an aesthetic object has an accidental aspect, usually that of psychological projection, then what the work demands from its beholder is knowledge, and indeed, knowledge that does justice to it: The work wants its truth and untruth to be grasped.”
― Aesthetic Theory
― Aesthetic Theory
“True friendship withstands time, distance, and silence.”
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“The images selected by memory are as arbitrary, as narrow, as elusive as those which the imagination had formed and reality has destroyed. There is no reason why, existing outside ourselves, a real place should conform to the pictures in our memory rather than those in our dreams. And besides, a fresh reality will perhaps make us forget, detest even, the desires on account of which we set out on our journey.”
― In Search Of Lost Time 4: The Captive
― In Search Of Lost Time 4: The Captive
Philosophy
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What is Philosophy? Why is it important? How do you use it? This group looks at these questions and others: ethics, government, economics, skepticism, ...more
Cain S.’s 2025 Year in Books
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