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Book cover for Gorgias
We will not appreciate Plato’s forceful denunciation of oratory if we fail to understand the importance of oratory in the social and political life of fifth-century Athens. In the major institutions of the democracy in Athens, such as the ...more
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Immanuel Kant
“I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.”
Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

David Foster Wallace
“The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the repetitive, the pointlessly complex. To be, in a word, unborable... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish.”
David Foster Wallace, The Pale King

Immanuel Kant
“Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.”
Immanuel Kant, Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals/On a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic Concerns

David Foster Wallace
“To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without duress-this will happen, mark me. Childhood's end.”
David Foster Wallace, The Pale King

Immanuel Kant
“But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.”
Immanuel Kant

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