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“History is for human self-knowledge…the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.”
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“The truth of art lies in its power to break the monopoly of established reality to define what is real.”
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“The owl of Minerva begins its flight only with the coming of the dusk.”
― Elements of the Philosophy of Right
― Elements of the Philosophy of Right
“The blade itself incites to deeds of violence.”
― The Odyssey
― The Odyssey
“Time is the mercy of Eternity; without Time's swiftness/ Which is the swiftest of all things: all were eternal torment.”
― Milton a Poem
― Milton a Poem
Jake’s 2025 Year in Books
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