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The Politics of the Soul: From Nietzsche to Arendt (Morality, Society and Culture)
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men could control life (and death), then she would not have suffered these tragedies. On the other hand, she wondered what would happen to the special role of women if it was possible to create life via artificial methods.
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Narration and fiction are woven together. The resulting cloth is fine-spun, and one cannot easily spot the seams.
Arlette Farge • The Allure of the Archives (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History)
Here was a repository of a woman’s knowledge, collected and passed on.
Alice Hoffman • The Rules of Magic
“Zeno would also say that nothing is more hostile to a firm grasp on knowledge than self-deception.” —DIOGENES LAERTIUS, LIVES OF THE EMINENT PHILOSOPHERS, 7.23
Ryan Holiday • The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living: Featuring new translations of Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius
When traditional mythologies and scriptures laid down general laws, these were presented in narrative rather than mathematical form.
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens
“Her intellectual gifts do but minister to a moral character that is the noblest and best balanced I have ever met with in life.”