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Adam Kinunen
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He has a last request to make to them—that they will trouble his sons as he has troubled them, if they appear to prefer riches to virtue, or to think themselves something when they are nothing.
Socratic humility defined. To not think you are something when you are nothing. Do not think of yourselves more highly than you ought. But with sober judgment..,
“Do you mortify; do you make it your daily work; be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.”
― The Mortification Of Sin
― The Mortification Of Sin
“Happiness, for Rand, is not mere pleasure or desire-satisfaction. It is that state of “non-contradictory joy” (Atlas 1022) that is the concomitant of achieving what one has rationally identified as objectively good.”
― A Companion to Ayn Rand
― A Companion to Ayn Rand
“The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.”
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“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
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“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
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