"Men's souls are crooked and unsound things, not……" — John C. Wright
"Men's souls are crooked and unsound things, not good materials out of which to build friendships, families, households, cities, civilizations. But good or no, these things must be built, and we must craft them with the materials at hand, and make as strong and stubborn redoubt as we can make, lest the horrors of the Night should triumph over us, not in some distant age to come, but now."
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10 Quotes by John C. Wright
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Reason is the tool men use to determine if their statements about reality are valid: there is no other. Those…
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A philosopher goes where the truth leads and has no patience with mere emotion.
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