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Parmenides
Parmenides
2 months 3 weeks ago
For it is the same thing...

For it is the same thing that can be thought and that can be.

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Frag. B 3, quoted by Plotinus, Enneads V, i.8
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Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
3 months 1 week ago
This misplacing hath caused a deficience,...

This misplacing hath caused a deficience, or at least a great improficience in the sciences themselves. For the handling of final causes, mixed with the rest in physical inquiries, hath intercepted the severe and diligent inquiry of all real and physical causes, and given men the occasion to stay upon these satisfactory and specious causes, to the great arrest and prejudice of further discovery. For this I find done not only by Plato, who ever anchoreth upon that shore, but by Aristotle, Galen, and others which do usually likewise fall upon these flats of discoursing causes.

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Book VII, 7
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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
2 months 4 days ago
It is not calling the landed...

It is not calling the landed estates, possessed by old prescriptive rights, the 'accumulations of ignorance and superstition', that can support me in shaking that grand title, which supersedes all other title, and which all my studies of general jurisprudence have taught me to consider as one principal cause of the formation of states; I mean the ascertaining and securing prescription. But these are donations made in 'ages of ignorance and superstition'. Be it so. It proves that these donations were made long ago; and this is prescription; and this gives right and title.

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Letter to Captain Thomas Mercer (26 February 1790), quoted in Alfred Cobban and Robert A. Smith (eds.), The Correspondence of Edmund Burke, Volume VI: July 1789-December 1791 (1967), p. 95
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Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov
4 months 1 day ago
I accept nothing on authority. A...

I accept nothing on authority. A hypothesis must be backed by reason, or else it is worthless.

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Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno
2 months 1 week ago
The single spirit doth simultaneously temper...

The single spirit doth simultaneously temper the whole together; this is the single soul of all things; all are filled with God.

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IV 9; as translated by Dorothea Waley Singer
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Jesus
Jesus
1 month 3 weeks ago
I thank thee, O Father, Lord...

I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes. Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight. All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him. Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

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11:25-30 (KJV)
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David Hume
David Hume
3 months 1 week ago
There is nothing in any object,...

There is nothing in any object, consider'd in itself, which can afford us a reason for drawing a conclusion beyond it; [...] even after the observation of the frequent or constant conjunction of objects, we have no reason to draw any inference concerning any object beyond those of which we have had experience.

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Part 3, Section 12
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 months 3 days ago
By the rude bridge that arched...

By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.

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Hymn sung at the Completion of the Battle Monument
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John Locke
John Locke
3 months 5 days ago
The three great things that govern...

The three great things that govern mankind are reason, passion and superstition. The first governs a few, the two last share the bulk of mankind and possess them in their turns. But superstition most powerfully produces the greatest mischief.

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Journal entry (16 May 1681), quoted in Maurice Cranston, John Locke: A Biography (1957; 1985), p. 200
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
3 months 4 days ago
The prospect for the human race...

The prospect for the human race is sombre beyond all precedent. Mankind are faced with a clear-cut alternative: either we shall all perish, or we shall have to acquire some slight degree of common sense. A great deal of new political thinking will be necessary if utter disaster is to be averted.

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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
4 weeks 1 day ago
There is a sort of dead-alive,...

There is a sort of dead-alive, hackneyed people about, who are scarcely conscious of living except in the exercise of some conventional occupation. ... They have no curiosity; they cannot give themselves over to random provocations; they do not take pleasure in the exercise of their faculties for its own sake; and unless necessity lays about them with a stick, they will even stand still. It is no good speaking to such folk: they cannot be idle, their nature is not generous enough; and they pass those hours in a sort of coma, which are not dedicated to furious moiling in the gold-mill.

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An Apology for Idlers.
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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
3 months 1 week ago
The hair is the finest ornament...

The hair is the finest ornament women have. . . . I like women to let their hair fall down their back, it is a most agreeable sight.

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-- Table Talk, quoted in Luther On "Woman"
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Auguste Comte
Auguste Comte
2 months 1 week ago
The principal means of realizing it...

The principal means of realizing it will be the formation of an alliance between philosophers and the working classes, for which both are alike prepared by the negative and positive progress of the last five centuries. The direct object of their combined action will be to set in motion the force of Public Opinion.

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p. 153
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
3 months 4 days ago
I am ashamed of belonging to...

I am ashamed of belonging to the species Homo Sapiens...You & I may be thankful to have lived in happier times - you more than I, because you have no children.

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Letter to Lucy Donnelly, 6/23/1946
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Gottlob frege
Gottlob frege
1 month 3 weeks ago
If I compare arithmetic with a...

If I compare arithmetic with a tree that unfolds upward into a multitude of techniques and theorems while its root drives into the depths, then it seems to me that the impetus of the root.

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Gottlob Frege, Montgomery Furth (1964). The Basic Laws of Arithmetic: Exposition of the System. p. 10
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Martin Luther
Martin Luther
3 months 1 week ago
Lastly, we must also know what...

Lastly, we must also know what Baptism signifies, and why God has ordained just such external sign and ceremony for the Sacrament by which we are first received into the Christian Church. But the act or ceremony is this, that we are sunk under the water, which passes over us, and afterwards are drawn out again. These two parts, to be sunk under the water and drawn out again, signify the power and operation of Baptism, which is nothing else than putting to death the old Adam, and after that the resurrection of the new man, both of which must take place in us all our lives, so that a truly Christian life is nothing else than a daily baptism, once begun and ever to be continued.

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On Infant Baptism, Large Catechism
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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
3 months 4 days ago
Again, defenders of utility often find...

Again, defenders of utility often find themselves called upon to reply to such objections as this-that there is not time, previous to action, for calculating and weighing the effects of any line of conduct on the general happiness. This is exactly as if any one were to say that it is impossible to guide our conduct by Christianity, because there is not time, on every occasion on which anything has to be done, to read through the Old and New Testaments. The answer to the objection is, that there has been ample time, namely, the whole past duration of the human species. During all that time mankind have been learning by experience the tendencies of actions.

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Ch. 2
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Mikhail Bakunin
Mikhail Bakunin
2 months 1 day ago
The first revolt is against the...

The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.

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Confucius
Confucius
3 months 3 weeks ago
Before you embark on a journey...

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

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Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman
1 month 2 weeks ago
"What I believe" is a process...

"What I believe" is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect. While it may be true that Herbert Spencer's formulation of liberty is the most important on the subject, as a political basis of society, yet life is something more than formulas. In the battle for freedom, as Ibsen has so well pointed out, it is the struggle for, not so much the attainment of, liberty, that develops all that is strongest, sturdiest and finest in human character.

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Marshall McLuhan
Marshall McLuhan
1 month 1 day ago
The most human thing about us...

The most human thing about us is our technology.

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Man and the future of organizations, Volume 5, School of Business Administration, Georgia State University, 1974, p. 19
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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill
3 months 4 days ago
That the human mind has a...

That the human mind has a certain order of possible progress, in which some things must precede others, an order which governments and public instructors can modify to some, but not to an unlimited extent: that all questions of political institutions are relative, not absolute, and that different stages of human progress not only will have, but ought to have, different institutions: That government is always either in the hands, or passing into the hands, of whatever is the strongest power in society, and that what this power is, does not depend on institutions, but institutions on it: That any general theory or philosophy of politics supposes a previous theory of human progress, and that this is the same thing with a philosophy of history.

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(p. 162)
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Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman
1 month 2 weeks ago
Atheism ... in its philosophic aspect...

Atheism ... in its philosophic aspect refuses allegiance not merely to a definite concept of God, but it refuses all servitude to the God idea, and opposes the theistic principle as such. Gods in their individual function are not half as pernicious as the principle of theism which represents the belief in a supernatural, or even omnipotent, power to rule the earth and man upon it. It is the absolutism of theism, its pernicious influence upon humanity, its paralyzing effect upon thought and action, which Atheism is fighting with all its power.

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Porphyry
Porphyry
2 months 2 weeks ago
The fleshless diet contributes to health...

The fleshless diet contributes to health and to a suitable endurance of hard work in philosophy.

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1, 2, 1
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
3 months 4 days ago
Gradually the village murmur subsided, and...

Gradually the village murmur subsided, and we seemed to be embarked on the placid current of our dreams, floating from past to future as silently as one awakes to fresh morning or evening thoughts.

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Byung-Chul Han
Byung-Chul Han
1 month 2 weeks ago
A farewell does not dilute the...

A farewell does not dilute the presence of the past; it may make an even deeper presence.

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C. S. Lewis
C. S. Lewis
3 months 2 days ago
The heart of Christianity is a...

The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact.

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"Myth Became Fact", 1944
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Simone Weil
Simone Weil
1 month 2 weeks ago
La force qui tue est une...

The might which kills outright is an elementary and coarse form of might. How much more varied in its devices; how much more astonishing in its effects is that other which does not kill; or which delays killing.

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in The Simone Weil Reader, p. 155
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Colin Wilson
Colin Wilson
1 month 2 weeks ago
Considered as a whole, Hesse's achievement...

Considered as a whole, Hesse's achievement can hardly be matched in modern literature; it is the continually rising trajectory of an idea, the fundamentally religious idea of how to 'live more abundantly'. Hesse has little imagination in the sense that Shakespeare or Tolstoy can be said to have imagination, but his ideas have a vitality that more than makes up for it. Before all, he is a novelist who used the novel to explore the problem: What should we do with our lives? The man who is interested to know how he should live instead of merely taking life as it comes, is automatically an Outsider.

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p. 77
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Horace
Horace
2 months 3 weeks ago
He who postpones the hour of living…

He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

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Book I, epistle ii, lines 41-42
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Carl Jung
Carl Jung
2 months ago
The great problems of life -...

The great problems of life - sexuality, of course, among others - are always related to the primordial images of the collective unconscious. These images are really balancing or compensating factors which correspond with the problems life presents in actuality. This is not to be marvelled at, since these images are deposits representing the accumulated experience of thousands of years of struggle for adaptation and existence.

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Ch. 5, p. 271
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Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut
1 month 5 days ago
Well, I've worried some about, you...

Well, I've worried some about, you know, why write books ... why are we teaching people to write books when presidents and senators do not read them, and generals do not read them. And it's been the university experience that taught me that there is a very good reason, that you catch people before they become generals and presidents and so forth and you poison their minds with ... humanity, and however you want to poison their minds, it's presumably to encourage them to make a better world.

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"A Talk with Kurt Vonnegut. Jr." by Robert Scholes in The Vonnegut Statement (1973) edited by Jerome Klinkowitz and John Somer October 1966), later published in Conversations With Kurt Vonnegut (1988), p. 123
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
3 months 4 days ago
Men rush to California and Australia...

Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction; but that is to go to the very opposite extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful.

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p. 489
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Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Henry Huxley
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The only medicine for suffering, crime,...

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.

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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
3 months 4 days ago
There was once a millionaire who...

There was once a millionaire who bought an infinite number of pairs of shoes and, whenever he bought a pair of shoes, he also bought a pair of socks. We can make a selection choosing one out of each pair of shoes, because we can choose always the right shoe or always the left shoe. Thus, so far as the shoes are concerned, selections exist. But, as regards the socks, where there is no distinction of right and left, we cannot use this rule of selection.

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pp. 93-93
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Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
3 months 4 days ago
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong,...

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.

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Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
2 months 4 days ago
Economy is a distributive virtue, and...

Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgment.

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Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes
1 month 3 weeks ago
Now I am about to take...

Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.

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Auguste Comte
Auguste Comte
2 months 1 week ago
Reorganisation, irrespectively of God or king,...

Reorganisation, irrespectively of God or king, by the worship of Humanity, systematically adopted. Man's only right is to do his duty. The Intellect should always be the servant of the Heart, and should never be its slave.

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Mikhail Bakunin
Mikhail Bakunin
2 months 1 day ago
Equality, proclaimed in 1793, has been...

Equality, proclaimed in 1793, has been one of the greatest conquests of the French Revolution. Despite all the reactions which have arrived since, that great principle has triumphed in the political economy of Europe. In the most advanced countries, it is called the equality of politic rights; in the other countries, civil equality - equality before the law. No country in Europe would dare to openly proclaim today the principle of political inequality. But the history of the revolution itself and that of the seventy-five years that have passed since, we prove that political equality without economic equality is a lie. You would proclaim in vain the equality of political rights, as long as society remains split by its economic organization into socially different layers - that equality will be nothing but a fiction.

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Jean Paul Sartre
Jean Paul Sartre
3 months 2 days ago
Your crystal? That's silly. Whom do...

Your crystal? That's silly. Whom do you think you are fooling? Come on, everyone knows that I threw the baby out of the window. The crystal is shattered on earth, and I do not care. I am no longer anything but a skin, and my skin does not belong to you.

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Estelle to Inès, Act 1, sc. 5
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 months 3 days ago
Every genuine work of art has...

Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun.

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José Ortega y Gasset
José Ortega y Gasset
1 month 3 weeks ago
The direction of society has been...

The direction of society has been taken over by a type of man who is not interested in the principles of civilisation. Not of this or that civilisation but - from what we can judge to-day - of any civilisation. ...The type of man dominant to-day is a primitive one, a Naturmensch rising up in the midst of a civilised world.

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Chap.IX: The Primitive and the Technical
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Plutarch
Plutarch
2 months 3 weeks ago
When he was wounded with an...

When he was wounded with an arrow in the ankle, and many ran to him that were wont to call him a god, he said smiling, "That is blood, as you see, and not, as Homer saith, 'such humour as distils from blessed gods.'"

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Voltaire
Voltaire
3 months 5 days ago
Ancient histories…

Ancient histories, as one of our wits has said, are but fables that have been agreed upon.

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Jeannot et Colin, 1764
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Karl Marx
Karl Marx
3 months 4 days ago
Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and...

Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.

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Vol. I, Ch. 15 (last sentence), pg. 556.
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Peter Singer
Peter Singer
2 months 3 weeks ago
I never believed in a God....

I never believed in a God. [...] There may have been times when I wondered if there might be a God, but it always seemed to me wildly implausible that a God worth worshipping could allow the Holocaust to occur.

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From an interview, as cited by Dan Goldberg "Peter Singer: is he really the most dangerous man in the world?", The Jewish Chronicle
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Xunzi
Xunzi
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The gentleman knows that whatever is...

The gentleman knows that whatever is imperfect and unrefined does not deserve praise. ... He makes his eyes not want to see what is not right, makes his ears not want to hear what is not right, makes his mouth not want to speak what is not right, and makes his heart not want to deliberate over what is not right. ... For this reason, power and profit cannot sway him, the masses cannot shift him, and nothing in the world can shake him.

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Readings in Classical Chinese Philosophy (2001), p. 260
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Novalis
Novalis
2 months 1 day ago
I shall in no time forget...

I shall in no time forget that moment. We felt as if we had had in our souls a clear passing glimpse into this wondrous World.

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