Why, within Eurasia, were European societies, rather than those of the Fertile Crescent or China or India, the ones that colonized America and Australia, took the lead in technology, and became politically and economically dominant in the modern world? Guns, Germs And Steel
“Justice is the giving to each man what is proper to him, and this he termed a debt.” Republic
„Mankind are not perfect, but one age is more or less hypocritical than another, and then simpletons say that its morality is high or low.“ Le Pere Goriot
What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it. The Immoralist
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