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It knows that those who come after us will see nothing different, that those who came before us saw no more than we do, and that anyone with forty years behind him and eyes in his head has seen both past and future—both alike.
you don’t have a consistent goal in life, you can’t live it in a consistent way.”
Socrates used to call popular beliefs “the monsters under the bed”—only useful for frightening children with.
festivals the Spartans put their guests’ seats in the shade, but sat themselves down anywhere.
Grapes. Unripe … ripened … then raisins. Constant transitions. Not the “not” but the “not yet.”
It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
Everything’s destiny is to change, to be transformed, to perish. So that new things can be born.
What links one human being to all humans: not blood, or birth, but mind.
