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“All men by nature desire to know.”
― Metaphysics
― Metaphysics
“Sentimental music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you forward, so you feel nostagic and hopeful all at the same time.”
― High Fidelity
― High Fidelity
“Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves with their own reckless ways compound their pains beyond their proper share.”
― The Odyssey
― The Odyssey
“Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.”
― Aristotle's Poetics
― Aristotle's Poetics
“The society we have described can never grow into a reality or see the light of day, and there will be no end to the troubles of states, or indeed, my dear Glaucon, of humanity itself, till philosophers become rulers in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.”
― Plato's Republic
― Plato's Republic
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