‘But, friend, when you know certain things: these things lead to dispassion not to passion; to detachment not to bondage, to diminution not to accumulation; to having few wishes, not to having many wishes, to contentment, not to discontent; to seclusion, not to gregariousness, to the arousing of ene…

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"We had the experience and missed the meaning"

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Neither science nor philosophy can show us the meaning of life. ~ Anthony Kenny

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Everything's laughter, everything is dust, everything noting. Out of unreason comes everything that exists. ~ Greek epigram

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“Opinions lie in the street,” Thomas Mann says somewhere. “Anybody can pick them up” . . . .

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“No wild beast is more savage than man when his passion is supplemented with power” ~ Plutarch

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“What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?” goes a Chinese proverb

15 months ago / 92 visits

The Act of Prohibition makes the withheld items more alluring that it could ever otherwise have been. Excerpt: “Pandora’s Jar” - Natalie Haynes

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“A Nation's essence and character lie in its language, its thought and sensibility, its whole style and civilization ~ Kurt Wachsmuth, German philologist

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“A Chair is not an artifact of service but an artifact of culture” ~ Ralph Caplan

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. . . . .When a traveler asked Wordsworth’s servant to show him her master’s study, she answered, “Here is his library, but his study is out of doors.” - page 8

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. . . Respect is the homage one pays to the order itself, rather than to the individuals. The first condition for a smooth-running social order in respect for it ~ Page 202

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. . . . all medieval towns had a few common characteristics. Walls enclosed the town. (The terms ‘burgher’ and bourgeois” derive from the Old English and Old German words ‘burg,’ ‘ borg,’ and ‘borough’ for “a walled or fortified place.”

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“Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.”

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Mit der Dummheit kampfen Gotter selbst vergebens : Against stupidity even the gods struggle in vain ~ Friedrich Schiller

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