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“Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.”
― The Essays
― The Essays
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
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“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
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“One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil.”
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
― Thus Spoke Zarathustra
“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”
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Literature and the Human Condition with Mr. Leon
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