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“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”
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“Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.”
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“I did not care for the things that most people care about– making money, having a comfortable home, high military or civil rank, and all the other activities, political appointments, secret societies, party organizations, which go on in our city . . . I set myself to do you– each one of you, individually and in private– what I hold to be the greatest possible service. I tried to persuade each one of you to concern himself less with what he has than with what he is, so as to render himself as excellent and as rational as possible.”
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“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”
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“an intelligent man cannot become anything seriously, and it is only the fool who becomes anything.”
― Notes from the Underground
― Notes from the Underground
Political Philosophy and Ethics
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Study and discussion of the important questions of ethical and political philosophy from Confucius and Socrates to the present. Rules (see also the ...more
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