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I wonder, if we all divorced ourselves in two, what would be the result? One half the observer, one half the doer. I doubt we'd be impressed with what we found.
It was like a bookshop but with more books.
An intellectual values ideas above all else, and if he or she is lucky enough to stumble on what might be a genuinely new idea, that is not so dissimilar to a mountaineer striving to be the first to climb some treacherous peak.
Mind is rather the product of a very particular complexity.
If philosophers gave clear answers then surely the whole field would've died out with the Greeks.
A man can do what he wants, but not will what he wants.
Beauty is nice and virtue is attractive, but nothing is more gorgeous than meeting another creature who shares your deepest values.
The core of heroism isn’t bravery, or even self-sacrifice. It is a commitment to what one knows to be the virtuous course of action, despite whatever the consequences may be.
