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Unfinished Business
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Reason and Morality
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"Fantastic essay by Sybil Wolfram (mother of Stephen) nuancing differences between asserting, saying, believing true or not true propositions. As Richard showed (and Priest too) philosophy runs aground on the rocks of real-world usages. We CAN countenance contradictions. p and not p, p and q." Nov 30, 2013 03:13PM

 
Tree Leaf Talk
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André Gide
“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”
Andre Gide

Marcel Proust
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
Marcel Proust

Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Ozymandias"

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
'My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Rosalind and Helen: A Modern Eclogue With Other Poems

Winston S. Churchill
“We are all worms, But I do believe that I am a glow worm.”
Winston S. Churchill, Never Give In! The Best of Winston Churchill's Speeches

Thomas Pynchon
“They're in love. Fuck the war.”
Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

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