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“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
“For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy.”
― Theaetetus
― Theaetetus
“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
“Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.”
― The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
― The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte
“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
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