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If you want a brief, readable history of philosophy in a story form, this isn’t terrible. The philosophy is under developed and the story is forced, but it performs its task in relaying some of the more important ideas of history’s great thinkers.
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With his contrasting vision of anxious, work-obsessed, overly disciplined Italians and happy-go-lucky, carefree Germans, Poggio believed he glimpsed for a moment the Epicurean pursuit
Such a contrast from how these two nations are viewed today
“Sleep, those little slices of death — how I loathe them.”
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“The absurd does not liberate; it binds. It does not authorize all actions. "Everything is permitted" does not mean that nothing is forbidden.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
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Christopher Moore
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