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“There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November”
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“It was India’s forsaken multitudes - whose suitability for democracy was repeatedly questioned and whose disenfranchisement high-mindedly rationalised away by the country's post-colonial elite - who resuscitated the republic [from the Emergency]”
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“I thought maybe we’d get all these engineers together and sit around a table. […] I felt that engineers were different from other people, that they were interested in combating nature, that they were above politics […] But I was naive”
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“Logic cannot argue with ideology”
― The Shoemaker and his Daughter
― The Shoemaker and his Daughter
“Alexander himself, in the hour of his triumph,
was conquered by the soul of the East; he married
(among several ladies) the daughter of Darius; he adopted the Persian diadem and robe of state; he introduced into Europe the Oriental notion of the divine right of kings; and at last he astonished a sceptic Greece by announcing, in magnificent
Eastern style, that he was a god. Greece laughed; and
Alexander drank himself to death.”
― The story of philosophy [Hardcover]
was conquered by the soul of the East; he married
(among several ladies) the daughter of Darius; he adopted the Persian diadem and robe of state; he introduced into Europe the Oriental notion of the divine right of kings; and at last he astonished a sceptic Greece by announcing, in magnificent
Eastern style, that he was a god. Greece laughed; and
Alexander drank himself to death.”
― The story of philosophy [Hardcover]
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