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On an open mind: G. K. Chesterton is one of the least known great thinkers, authors, and preachers of the latter 19th and early 20th centuries. His witty wisdom can be found not only in trenchant statements of truth, but in mystery novels and short stories, and in profound essays elucidating what are, to most, hard-to-understand realities of everyday life.
UNDER CONSTRUCTION (Iʻm planning to clean this up ASAP) An initial question may be plaguing you right at the outset: “Who the @*#% is Will Durant? And why should I believe him?” Well, D…
“You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.”
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently - Friedrich Nietzsche.
Edward W. Said was born in 1935 in Jerusalem, raised in Jerusalem and Cairo, and educated in the United States, where he attended Princeton (B.A. 1957) and Harvard (M.A. 1960; Ph.D. 1964). In 1963, he...
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The difference between opinion and empathy as forms of human knowledge, according to one of Western history's greatest thinkers.
Power can dramatically change people
