"The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding."

-- Karl Jaspers

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“Among the handful of British diplomats and military men aware of their government's secret policy in the Middle East-that the Arabs were being encouraged to fight and die on the strength of promises that had already been traded away-were many who regarded that policy as utterly shameful, an affront to British dignity.”

Source : Scott Anderson (2014). “Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East”, p.276, Atlantic Books Ltd
“Everything looks beautiful in Life of Pi.”

Source : "Life of Pi" by Lisa Schwarzbaum, ew.com. November 22, 2012.
“Speak a new language so that the world will be a new world.”
“Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.”

Source : Jean-Henri Fabre (1911). “Souvenirs Entomologiques”, London : A. and C. Black
“In its most primitive form, life is, therefore, no longer bound to the cell, the cell which possesses structure and which can be compared to a complex wheel-work, such as a watch which ceases to exist if it is stamped down in a mortar. No, in its primitive form life is like fire, like a flame borne by the living substance;-like a flame which appears in endless diversity and yet has specificity within it;-which can adopt the form of the organic world, of the lank grass-leaf and of the stem of the tree.”
“Can you trust me, he said. Not will you. Can you. Can I trust him? What do I have to lose?”
“And what he meant was that maths wasn't like life because in life there are no straightforward answers in the end”
“Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.”

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