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- "Knowing how to have a good conversation is one of the key ingredients of the good life, Aristotle recognised."
- "In Montaigne’s redrawn portrait of the adequate, semi-rational human being, it is possible to speak no Greek, fart, change one’s mind after a meal, get bored with books, be impotent, and know none of the ancient philosophers."
- "It only looks easy. Nietzsche, who was deeply inspired by La Rochefoucauld, wrote aphorisms (collected in his book Human, All Too Human), which sorely lack the Frenchman’s mixture of darkness and good sense: A few men have sighed because their women were abducted; most, because no one wanted to abdu"
- "The rabbis issued a writ known as a cherem against the philosopher: ‘By the decree of the angels’ – it went – ‘and by the command of the holy men, we excommunicate, expel, curse and damn Baruch de Espinoza … with all the curses which are written in the Book of the Law. Cursed be he by day and cursed"
- "Hegel has had a terrible influence on philosophy. He writes horribly. He is confusing and complicated when he should be clear and direct. He tapped into a weakness of human nature: to be trustful of grave-sounding, incomprehensible prose. He made it seem as if the mark of reading deep thought is tha"
- "Bitterness is envy that doesn’t understand itself."
- "The field is not without other distinguished contestants, but in the competitive history of incomprehensible German philosophers, Martin Heidegger must, by any reckoning, emerge as the overall victor."
- "‘The great secret of education is to direct vanity to proper objects.’"
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用最简洁的语言介绍了人文领域的60位作者。每一个人的侧重点都在其思想内核对当代人可能有哪些帮助。尽管不能面面俱到，但是作为笼统的了解非常适合作为中学生的启蒙读物。
没有具体话题，那么多人一个个说过去，毫无目的，信息密度好低
Mr. Darcy’s cold personality needs warming. Stoicism tells us to look at the start and shrink ourselves back to the proper size.
读过其中几篇 作英语阅读材料来读的
对于老子的解读非常不合理
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