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““The power and capacity of learning exists in the soul already; and that just as the eye was unable to turn from darkness to light without the whole body, so too the instrument of knowledge can only by the movement of the whole soul be turned from the world of becoming into that of being, and learn by degrees to endure the sight of being, and of the brightest and best of being, or in other words, of the good.””
Republic • Plato““[…] she was feeling something new here. Or something old that she had long buried. [It] reminded her that she was, first and foremost, a human living on a planet. Almost everything she had done in her life […] – almost everything she had bought and worked for and consumed – had taken her further away from understanding that she and all humans were really just one of nine million species.””
Midnight Library • Matt Haig“My guiding star always is, Get hold of portable property.”
Great Expectations • Charles Dickens“Remember this, then, that this little compound, thyself, must either be dissolved, or thy poor breath must be extinguished, or be removed and placed elsewhere.”
Book VIII • Marcus Aurelius“Remember that impact is the product of two factors: population multiplied times impact per person.”
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed • Jared Diamond