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“What is imagination?...
It is a God-like, a noble faculty. It renders earth tolerable, it teaches us to live, in the tone of the eternal.”
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It is a God-like, a noble faculty. It renders earth tolerable, it teaches us to live, in the tone of the eternal.”
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“[Real scientist are delighted when they find out they are wrong. And to me that is one of the greatest gifts that a scientific education can bring.] There are too many people in this world who want to be right. And too few who just want to know.”
― Forces of Nature
― Forces of Nature
“There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions, as the knowledge that there is a meaning in his life.”
― The Feeling of Meaninglessness: A Challenge to Psychotherapy and Philosophy
― The Feeling of Meaninglessness: A Challenge to Psychotherapy and Philosophy
“One who lives within reason lives without the spirit”
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“He who knows only his wife and loves her understands all women better than if he had known a thousand”
― Anna Karenina
― Anna Karenina
Alain de Botton
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A chance to discuss the work of Alain de Botton, especially the latest title, A Week at the Airport. Dates, October 18-24
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