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Hegel and Greek Thought

by J. Glenn Gray

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Jan 13, 2026 08:39AM

“So many scholars have spent so much time trying to establish whether Arthur ever existed at all that they have lost track of the single truth that he exists over and over.”
― John Steinbeck, The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights

tags: john-steinbeck, king-arthur

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“I sleep among ravishing illusions and wake to their burden.”
― Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Three: 1925-1930

tags: dreams-and-reality, sleep, virginia-woolf

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“history is what it is. it knows what it did.”
― Danez Smith

tags: history, poem, poetry

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“What you make from a tree should be at least as miraculous as what you cut down.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory

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“Often father and daughter look down on mother (woman) together. They exchange meaningful glances when she misses a point. They agree that she is not bright as they are, cannot reason as they do. This collusion does not save the daughter from the mother’s fate.”
― Bonnie Burstow, Radical Feminist Therapy: Working in the Context of Violence

tags: feminism, mothers, patriarchy, philosophy, psychology, radical-feminism

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