…and the cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
Riddle me this
If indeed Iran stopped its nuclear-weapons program in 2003, is it a coincidence that this was the same year America made good on its threat of military force against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq?
An illusion of youth
It is an illusion of youth that one can attain the universal without becoming anything in particular.
Unity
From the Renaissance onward a synthesis has no longer existed. Men began to discover the discrepancies between the world of sensation and the world of objectivity from which these sensations derived their stimuli. In short, the scientific method, the beginnings of inquiry into the nature of things, had forever disrupted the unity that [...]
Transform Honesty
Ay, truly; for the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty from what it is to a bawd than the force of honesty can translate beauty into his likeness: this was sometime a paradox, but now the time gives it proof. I did love you once.
