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“It was India’s forsaken multitudes - whose suitability for democracy was repeatedly questioned and whose disenfranchisement high-mindedly rationalised away by the country's post-colonial elite - who resuscitated the republic [from the Emergency]”
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“Alexander himself, in the hour of his triumph,
was conquered by the soul of the East; he married
(among several ladies) the daughter of Darius; he adopted the Persian diadem and robe of state; he introduced into Europe the Oriental notion of the divine right of kings; and at last he astonished a sceptic Greece by announcing, in magnificent
Eastern style, that he was a god. Greece laughed; and
Alexander drank himself to death.”
― The story of philosophy [Hardcover]
was conquered by the soul of the East; he married
(among several ladies) the daughter of Darius; he adopted the Persian diadem and robe of state; he introduced into Europe the Oriental notion of the divine right of kings; and at last he astonished a sceptic Greece by announcing, in magnificent
Eastern style, that he was a god. Greece laughed; and
Alexander drank himself to death.”
― The story of philosophy [Hardcover]
“The equation of taxation and theft is as old as extortion”
― Work: A History of How we spend our Time
― Work: A History of How we spend our Time
“I remember stony landscapes in which I sensed the mysterious imprint left by eyes that had looked on them for centuries upon centuries before me”
― The Genius of Judaism
― The Genius of Judaism
“Of all known liquids water is probably the most studied and least understood”
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