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pentateuch read in 04/03/2024- the language of kjv was generally pretty good & quite beautiful or striking at times. genesis was definitely the most fascinating book. jacob strikes me as an odysseus figure. josephs story in egypt was really emotional
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“Everyone knows how useful usefulness is, but no one seems to know how useful uselessness is.”
― Zhuangzi: The Essential Writings: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries
― Zhuangzi: The Essential Writings: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries
“Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves with their own reckless ways compound their pains beyond their proper share.”
― The Odyssey
― The Odyssey
“The only historian capable of fanning the spark of hope in the past is the one who is firmly convinced that even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he is victorious.”
― On the Concept of History
― On the Concept of History
“The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.”
― Don Quixote
― Don Quixote
“For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.”
― Theaetetus
― Theaetetus
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