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Unless we choose to decentralize and to use applied science, not as the end to which human beings are to be made…
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Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they…
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The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will…
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When life appears to be working against you, when your luck is down, when the supposedly wrong people show up, or when…
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Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know.
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Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can…
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Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against…
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There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and…
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One thinks one's something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe, when in fact one's just a slight interruption in…
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Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest?
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To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.
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Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.
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Socrates, in Plato, formulates ideas of order: the Iliad, like Shakespeare, knows that a violent disorder is a great order.
— Harold Bloom
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If atoms do, by chance, happen to combine themselves into so many shapes, why have they never combined together to form a…
— Michel de Montaigne
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No ancient story, not even Homer's Iliad or Odyssey, has remained as popular through the course of time. The story of Rama…
— David Frawley
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If one puts an infinite number of monkeys in front of typewriters, and lets them clap away, there is a certainty that…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Something greater than the Iliad now springs to birth -Nescio quid maius nascitur Iliade
— Propertius
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The Bible is to religion what the Iliad is to poetry
— Joseph Joubert
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No particular music makes me feel nostalgic. If it's great, it just keeps me in the present moment. That level of music…
— Wynton Marsalis
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One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey.
— Raymond Queneau
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No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the _Iliad_. Good and evil do not exist.
— Julian Jaynes
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A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.
— Raymond Queneau
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The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad,…
— George Saintsbury
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The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history.
— Raymond Queneau
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