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“To complainers everywhere:
Turn up the volume!”
― Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
Turn up the volume!”
― Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
“The society of the illustrious dead can be enjoyed by me at leisure here; and when I choose to converse with sages, statesmen, or great poets, I have but to turn to my bookshelves, and my company is better than any that your palaces can afford with all their crowd of clients and flatterers.”
― The Renaissance
― The Renaissance
“One might think that, if Heidegger had anything worth saying, he could have communicated it in ordinary language. The fact is that he does not want to be ordinary, and he may not even want to communicate in the usual sense. He wants to make the familiar obscure, and to vex us.”
― At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others
― At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others
“In Europe the Age of Faith reached its last full flower in Dante; it suffered a vital wound from Occam’s “razor” in the fourteenth century; but it lingered, ailing, till the advent of Bruno and Galileo, Descartes and Spinoza, Bacon and Hobbes; it may return if the Age of Reason achieves catastrophe”
― The Age of Faith
― The Age of Faith
“There were so many things to be done in the process of cleaning up the mess that Caligula had left behind him—nearly four years of misrule—that it makes my head swim even now to think of it.”
― Claudius The God: And His Wife Messalina
― Claudius The God: And His Wife Messalina
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