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"Of all of GK's "collected works", this is the least difficult to read, for a great part of the essays is about his trip around Europe. The difference between the foreign countries was obvious enough to draw simple, amusing philosophic conclusions. The book is also a window to GK's favorite things:
-The winter season
-Railway stations
-FRANCE, French history (warts and all)
-travelling (in order to come home)" — Sep 24, 2016 08:48AM
"Of all of GK's "collected works", this is the least difficult to read, for a great part of the essays is about his trip around Europe. The difference between the foreign countries was obvious enough to draw simple, amusing philosophic conclusions. The book is also a window to GK's favorite things:
-The winter season
-Railway stations
-FRANCE, French history (warts and all)
-travelling (in order to come home)" — Sep 24, 2016 08:48AM
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"Don't be fooled by the title of this book. I ignored this book because I thought it's just all kinds of pretty anecdotes regarding St. Francis. The first quarter of this book relies heavily on the MEDIEVAL background of St. Francis Assisi that you would think you're reading a history book" — Feb 29, 2020 05:26AM
"Don't be fooled by the title of this book. I ignored this book because I thought it's just all kinds of pretty anecdotes regarding St. Francis. The first quarter of this book relies heavily on the MEDIEVAL background of St. Francis Assisi that you would think you're reading a history book" — Feb 29, 2020 05:26AM
There is something of a harmony between the hearth and the firelight and my own first pleasure in his words about the brother fire;
“The national anthem of Hell is 'I did it my way.”
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“Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...”
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“The wild worship of lawlessness and the materialist worship of law end in the same void. Nietzsche scales staggering mountains, but he turns up ultimately in Tibet. He sits down beside Tolstoy in the land of nothing and Nirvana. They are both helpless—one because he must not grasp anything, and the other because he must not let go of anything. The Tolstoyan’s will is frozen by a Buddhist instinct that all special actions are evil. But the Nietzscheite’s will is quite equally frozen by his view that all special actions are good; for if all special actions are good, none of them are special. They stand at the crossroads, and one hates all the roads and the other likes all the roads. The result is—well, some things are not hard to calculate. They stand at the cross-roads.”
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“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
“Know what you are talking about.”
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