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You have only to “stay tuned,” and you can arrive at a perpetual state of confusion and, ultimately, despair with no effort at all.
“for where the religions spirit is not tolerated, where there is no room for poetry and art, where love and death are robbed of all significant effect and reduced to the level of a banality, philosophy will never prosper.”
― Leisure: The Basis of Culture
― Leisure: The Basis of Culture
“read and inquire as a free adult is to take on the awesome responsibility of allowing oneself to be changed.”
― Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
― Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
“To obtain the gift of holiness is the work of a life.”
― Parochial and Plain Sermons
― Parochial and Plain Sermons
“The freedom of a leisurely activity is the freedom from results or outcomes beyond it, not the freedom of rest or recreation.”
― Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
― Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
“From shadows and symbols into the truth.”
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