

“To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.”
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“Middle age has been defined as what happens when a person's broad mind and narrow waist change places.”
― The Heart of Things: Applying Philosophy to the 21st Century
― The Heart of Things: Applying Philosophy to the 21st Century

“If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.”
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“...mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.”
― Life, Sex and Ideas: The Good Life Without God
― Life, Sex and Ideas: The Good Life Without God
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