“Consistency is the playground of dull minds.” (Meaning) Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Against war one might say that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished malicious. In its favor, that in producing these two effects it barbarizes, and so makes the combatants more natural. For culture it is a sleep or a wintertime, and man emerges from it stronger for good and for evil. Human, All Too Human
It is a shame for those who sweeten drink with the gifts of the bees, by badness to embitter reason which is the gift of the gods. Fragment
There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past. As I learned later from the delightful little book of the Abbé de Bucquoy, there are also visions of books as yet unwritten. The Name of The Rose
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