Every man Quote by Sarah Bakewell

““See how Plato is moved and tossed about. Every man, glorying in applying him to himself, sets him on the side he wants. They trot him out and insert him into all the new opinions that the world accepts.””

Sarah Bakewell

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“As the modern critic David Quint has summed it up, Montaigne would probably interpret the message for humanity in Christ’s crucifixion as being “Don’t…

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“He distinguishes between the German word Seiende, which can refer to any individual entity, such as a mouse or a church door, and Sein,…

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“Starting from where you are now, you choose. And in choosing, you also choose who you will be. If this sounds difficult and unnerving,…

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“Instead, this cup of coffee is a rich aroma, at once earthy and perfumed; it is the lazy movement of a curlicue of steam…

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“As history has repeatedly suggested, nothing is more effective for demolishing traditional legal protections than the combined claims that a crime is uniquely dangerous,…

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“The Childhood of a Leader’, written in 1938, Sartre examined a character, Lucien, who shores up an identity for himself as an anti-Semite mainly…

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“Over the centuries, this interpretation and reinterpretation creates a long chain connecting a writer to all future readers- who frequently read each other as…

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“Be free from vanity and pride. Be free from belief, disbelief, convictions, and parties. Be free from habit. Be free from ambition and greed.…

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“If you fail to grasp life, it will elude you. If you do grasp it, it will elude you anyway.”

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