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“Wholly unprepared, we embark upon the second half of life. Or are there perhaps colleges for forty-year-olds which prepare them for their coming life and its demands as the ordinary colleges introduce our young people to a knowledge of the world? No, thoroughly unprepared we take the step into the afternoon of life; worse still we take this step with the false assumption that our truths and ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life's morning; for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie.”
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“[f]ortune is the lease capricious of deities, and arranges things on the just and rigid system that no one shall be very happy for very long.”
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“He took a grim and ironic pleasure from the possibility that what little learning he had managed to acquire had led him to this knowledge: that in the long run all things, even the learning that let him know this, were futile and empty, and at last diminished into a nothingness they did not alter.”
― Stoner
― Stoner
“Heresy is the life of a mythology and orthodoxy is the death.”
― Mythology and the Individual
― Mythology and the Individual
“A pair of wings, a different respiratory system, which enabled us to travel through space, would in no way help us, for if we visited Mars or Venus while keeping the same senses, they would clothe everything we could see in the same aspect as the things of Earth. The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is; and this we can do with an Elstir, with a Vinteuil; with men like these we do really fly from star to star.”
― The Captive
― The Captive
War and Peace, 2009
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— last activity Sep 04, 2009 11:17AM
This is a reading group to discuss Tolstoy's War and Peace. The goal is to complete the book by September of 2009. To do that, we have set dates to co ...more
Monks of the Screw / F.I.G.H.T. C.L.U.B.
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— last activity May 05, 2025 12:18PM
When Saint Patrick this order established, He called us the Monks of the Screw Good rules he revealed to our Abbot To guide us in what we should do; B ...more
Penumbras of Uncertainty
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— last activity Nov 08, 2020 03:12PM
Philosophy group in Sandy, UT A discussion of Second Things.
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