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“I lost myself in the contemplation of nature, trying to forget my thoughts and to look only at beings as they appear, and to forget myself, joyfully, in the sight of them.”
― The Name of the Rose
― The Name of the Rose
“Life will dissolve itself in death, rivers in the sea, and the known in the unknown.”
― Inner Experience
― Inner Experience
“Where is all my wisdom, then? I behaved stubbornly, pursuing a semblance of order, when I should have known well that there is no order in the universe.”
― The Name of the Rose
― The Name of the Rose
“. . . Aristotle . . . said that men were not at all euqal by nature, since some were born for slavery and others born to be masters.
Aristotle was right; but he mistook the effect for the cause . . . if there are slaves by nature, it is only because there has been slavery against nature. Force made the first slaves; and their cowardice perpetuates their slavery.”
― The Social Contract
Aristotle was right; but he mistook the effect for the cause . . . if there are slaves by nature, it is only because there has been slavery against nature. Force made the first slaves; and their cowardice perpetuates their slavery.”
― The Social Contract
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