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“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
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“Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another. Self-incurred is this tutelage when its cause lies not in lack of reason but in lack of resolution and courage to use it without direction from another. Sapere aude! 'Have courage to use your own reason!'- that is the motto of enlightenment.”
― An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?
― An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?
“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.”
― No man is an island – A selection from the prose
― No man is an island – A selection from the prose
“I think that the task of philosophy is not to provide answers, but to show how the way we perceive a problem can be itself part of a problem.”
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“The ignorant man is not free, because what confronts him is an alien world, something outside him and in the offing, on which he depends, without his having made this foreign world for himself and therefore without being at home in it by himself as in something his own. The impulse of curiosity, the pressure for knowledge, from the lowest level up to the highest rung of philosophical insight arises only from the struggle to cancel this situation of unfreedom and to make the world one's own in one's ideas and thought.”
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Brock’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Brock’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
3,017 books
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31 friends
654 books
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136 friends
320 books
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16 friends
88 books
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8 friends
31 books
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13 friends
368 books
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53 friends
9 books
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16 friends
335 books
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106 friends
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