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The Roman
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Classical Mythology
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Beauregard Bottomley Beauregard Bottomley said: " Myths are never myths to those who believe. The stories we tell ourselves in order to encode our hopes, aspirations and fears are one way we shape our understanding. Hegel used concepts, St. Thomas Aquinas saw our understanding through actions (the ‘ ...more "

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"As relevant to today and the madness that is Donald Trump than anything you'll see on Facebook or see in political blogs. I would love to dissect this lecture and tell you why, but as No. 2 said to No. 6 in the "Prisoner" 'that would be telling'. 'be seeing you'." Oct 06, 2017 02:11PM

 
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Peter Sloterdijk
“In his critique of reason, Nietzsche accomplished nothing less than the proof that all cognition is local in character and that, in imitating the divine eye, no human observer is able to go as far as really transcending his own location.”
Peter Sloterdijk

S.T. Joshi
“The dominant question thus becomes not why religion has not died away but why it continues to persist in the face of monumental evidence to the contrary. To my mind, the answer can be summed up in one straightforward sentence: People are stupid.”
S.T. Joshi, God's Defenders: What They Believe and Why They Are Wrong

Friedrich Nietzsche
“Among the things that can drive a thinker to despair is the knowledge that the illogical is necessary for man and that much good comes from it.”
Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

Wil Wheaton
“The reality of this election is that we can choose between a disappointing Democrat and the end of the world.”
Wil Wheaton

Friedrich Nietzsche
“Perspectivism is only a complex form of specificity[.] My idea is, that every specific body strives to become lord over all of space and to expand its force (—its will to power) and to repel everything that resists its own expansion. But it perpetually collides with the equal efforts of other bodies, and ends by making an arrangement (“unifying”) with those that are closely enough related to it:—thus they conspire together to power. And the process goes on….”
Friedrich Nietzsche

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