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“When viewing historical objects we should not view time as a gulf to be bridged, says Gadamer. Its distance is filled with the continuity of tradition, which sheds light on our understanding.”
― D.K. Publishing, The Philosophy Book

“The whisky burns. How strange to try to drown pain with fire.”
― Abraham Verghese, The Covenant of Water

“In 1865 English chemist John Newlands discovered that when the chemical elements are arranged according to atomic weight, those with similar properties occur at every eighth element, like notes of music. This discovery became known as the Law of Octaves, and it helped lead to the development of the Periodic Law of chemical elements still used today.”
― D.K. Publishing, The Philosophy Book

“Are you actually preoccupied with loving, or are you preoccupied with not disappointing”
― Amy Susanna Copeland, Love & the Art of Saying No: A Journey Out of Co-Dependence, People-Pleasing, And Over-Commitment