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"“ve beat you in 1776”
this is so hilarious to read about what was considered vile and rude
“we don’t like yankeeland”
it’s slow but the context of euro immigration between this particular fiction era piece confirms a lot of my suspicions on what is actually contextual than what you will find in a barns n noble" — Aug 18, 2024 09:41AM
this is so hilarious to read about what was considered vile and rude
“we don’t like yankeeland”
it’s slow but the context of euro immigration between this particular fiction era piece confirms a lot of my suspicions on what is actually contextual than what you will find in a barns n noble" — Aug 18, 2024 09:41AM
“Man is the only creature with the power to control instinct by his own will, but he is also able to suppress, distort, and wound it… Supressed instincts can gain control of man; they can even destroy him.”
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“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.”
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“The root of the greatest errors in philosophy lies in projecting our human purposes, criteria and preferences into the objective universe.
Hence our "problem of evil"; we strive to reconcile the ills of life with the goodness of God, forgetting the lesson taught to Job, that God is beyond our little good and evil.
Good and bad are relative to human and often individual tastes and ends, and have no validity for a universe in which individuals are ephemera, and in which the Moving Finger writes even the history of the race i water.”
― The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
Hence our "problem of evil"; we strive to reconcile the ills of life with the goodness of God, forgetting the lesson taught to Job, that God is beyond our little good and evil.
Good and bad are relative to human and often individual tastes and ends, and have no validity for a universe in which individuals are ephemera, and in which the Moving Finger writes even the history of the race i water.”
― The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
“Perhaps people like us cannot love. Ordinary people can - that is their secret. ”
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“What is often called will, as the impulsive force which determines the duration of an idea in consciousness, should be called desire,-which 'is the very essence of man.' Desire is an appetite or instinct of which we are conscious; but instincts need not always operate through conscious desire.”
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