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November 21, 2020 - June 4, 2021
boarding school of high academic status, where he acquired his love of classical studies. He excelled in Greek and Latin and was devoted to Plato and Aeschylus.
“All writing is useless that does not contain a stimulus to activity.”
Kant describes this domain of timeless truth as noumena or “things-in-themselves”, opposing it to phenomena or “things-as-they-appear” to us through our senses.
“I will never again read an author of whom I suspect that he wanted to make a book, but only those whose thoughts unexpectedly became a book.”
“The weakness of modern personality comes out in the measureless overflow of criticism.”