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loucura. E assim como diz Platão que em vão um homem equilibrado bate à porta da poesia, assim também diz Aristóteles que nenhuma alma excelente está isenta de um grão de loucura.
Michel de Montaigne • Os ensaios: Uma seleção (Portuguese Edition)
Who is the true philosopher, and is he really the most blessed and happiest of men?
Plato • Phaedo (Focus Philosophical Library)
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Michael Dean • 2 cards
every great philosopher actually wrote ‘a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir’
Sarah Bakewell • At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others
In later years, Beauvoir would follow through on her initial impulse, writing a comprehensive four-volume autobiography; this would also be the subject of much critical acclaim. The volumes, published over a fourteen-year stretch from 1958 to 1972, were Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, The Prime of Life, Force of Circumstance and, finally, All Said
... See moreWarren Ward • Lovers of Philosophy: How the Intimate Lives of Seven Philosophers Shaped Modern Thought
“Poets do not go mad; but chess players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination.”
David Foster Wallace, Neal Stephenson (Introduction) • Everything and More
Rescuing Socrates: How the Great Books Changed My Life and Why They Matter for a New Generation
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At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that the earth goes round the sun; today, to believe that the past is unalterable. He might be alone in holding that belief, and if alone, then a lunatic. But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.
George Orwell • 1984
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