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This is my kind of book, full of the eternal and internal struggle between right and wrong, with generous doses of passion, obsession, love and hate. Add a righteous dose of criticism of organized religion, especially the Roman Catholic version, and
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“Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses -because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”
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“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
“I desire that there may be as many different persons in the world as possible; but I would have each one be very careful to find out and pursue his own way, and not his father's or his mother's or his neighbor's instead. The youth may build or plant or sail, only let him not be hindered from doing that which he tells me he would like to do.”
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
― Walden or, Life in the Woods
“If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”
― The Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
― The Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Philosophy Is Life
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This is a group for anyone who is even semi-interested in philosophy. The best part; you don't even have to know anything about philosophy you just ha ...more
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