“The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks.”
― How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
― How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
“True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.”
― How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
― How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
“The mouth should have three gatekeepers. Is it true? Is it kind? And is it necessary?”
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“If you have the power to put a stop to subjugation, yet look the other way while it happens, then you have done it yourselves,”
― On Justice, Power, and Human Nature: Selections from The History of the Peloponnesian War
― On Justice, Power, and Human Nature: Selections from The History of the Peloponnesian War
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