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“The most sublime labour of poetry is to give sense and passion to insensate things; and it is characteristic of children to take inanimate things in their hands and talk to them in play as if they were living persons... This philological-philosophical axiom proves to us that in the world's childhood men were by nature sublime poets...”
― New Science
― New Science
“A city divided by religion is either already in ruins or close to it.”
― Vico: The First New Science
― Vico: The First New Science
“peoples, like so many beasts, have fallen into the custom of each man thinking only of his own private interests and have reached the extreme of delicacy, or better of pride, in which like wild animals they bristle and lash out at the slightest displeasure. Thus no matter how great the throng and press of their bodies, they live like wild beasts in a deep solitude of spirit and will, scarcely any two being able to agree since each follows his own pleasure and caprice.”
― New Science
― New Science
Mags’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Mags’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Art, Biography, Classics, Contemporary, Fantasy, Fiction, Non-fiction, Psychology, Science fiction, Thriller, and Travel
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