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The Proper Study of Mankind

by Isaiah Berlin

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Dec 30, 2025 06:25PM

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Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)

by Elizabeth Strout (Goodreads Author)

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Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World

by Donald R. Howard

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“...faith draws its fanatical power from the fact that it is not knowledge: it is blind, passionate, stubborn, and stupid; what it puts forward is done unconditionally, against reason, against history, against all refutation.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

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“He is a sensible man who does not grieve for what he has not, but enjoys what he has.”
― Democritus

tags: envy

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“Men try to do battle with error, but when the fight is over they have the uncomfortable feeling that the human soul is more at home with illusion than with truth and that they ought to admit it.”
― Paul Hazard, paraphrasing Pierre Bayle in "The Crisis of the European Mind 1680-1715"

tags: admit, error, illusion, truth

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“The "right" is nothing more than what benefits the powerful.”
― Plato

tags: politics, powerful, right

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“In that old Potter's Shop I stood alone
with the clay Population round in Rows.

And strange to tell among the Earthen Lot
Some could articulate, while others not:
And suddenly one more impatient cried-
"Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?”
― Omar Khayyám, translated by Edward FitzGerald

tags: creator, human-infirmity

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