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“If I am pressed to say why I loved him, I feel it can only be explained by replying: 'Because it was he; because it was me.”
― The Complete Essays
― The Complete Essays
“Tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.”
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“Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's understanding without guidance from another.”
― An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?
― An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?
“Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them.”
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“The beautiful word minunthadios, “short-lived,” is used of both Achilles and Hector, and applies to all of us.”
― The Iliad
― The Iliad
Philosophy
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