

“Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”
― Macbeth
― Macbeth

“The beautiful word minunthadios, “short-lived,â€� is used of both Achilles and Hector, and applies to all of us.”
― The Iliad
― The Iliad

“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is lost
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are filled with passionate intensity.”
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Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is lost
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are filled with passionate intensity.”
―

“Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's understanding without guidance from another.”
― An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?
― An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?

“So shines a good deed in a weary world.”
― Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
― Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

What is Philosophy? Why is it important? How do you use it? This group looks at these questions and others: ethics, government, economics, skepticism, ...more

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