Thousands of books are waiting to be discovered.
Recommended Books
See All
“This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half.”
Animal Farm • George Orwell““The prison-house is the world of sight, the light of the fire is the sun, and you will not misapprehend me if you interpret the journey upwards to be the ascent of the soul into the intellectual world according to my poor belief, which, at your desire, I have expressed—whether rightly or wrongly God knows.””
Republic • Plato“When does the soul obtain truth?—for in attempting to consider anything in company with the body she is obviously deceived. ...Then must not existence be revealed to her in thought, if at all? ...And thought is best when the mind is gathered into herself and none of these things trouble her—neither sounds nor sights nor pain nor any pleasure—when she has as little as possible to do with the body, and has no bodily sense or feeling, but is aspiring after being? ...And in this the philosopher dishonors the body; his soul runs away from the body and desires to be alone and by herself?”
The Trials Of Socrates • Plato“Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time; and live according to nature the remainder which is allowed thee.”
Book VII • Marcus Aurelius“Trolls are slow in the uptake, and mighty suspicious about anything new to them.”
The Hobbit • J.R.R Tolkien