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“The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.”
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“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
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“I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.”
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“For by Art is created that great LEVIATHAN called a COMMON-WEALTH, or STATE, (in latine CIVITAS) which is but an Artificiall Man; though of greater stature and strength than the Naturall, for whose protection and defence it was intended; and in which, the Soveraignty is an Artificiall Soul, as giving life and motion to the whole body;”
― Leviathan
― Leviathan
“The world is a book, and those who don't travel only read one page.”
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Classics and the Western Canon
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This is a group to read and discuss those books generally referred to as “the classics” or “the Western canon.” Books which have shaped Western though ...more
Hong’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Hong’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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62 friends
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Art, Business, Classics, Fantasy, Fiction, History, Manga, Music, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Science, Science fiction, and Travel
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