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To be a philosopher is to know through long walks, by reasoning, and reasoning only, a priori, what others can only potentially learn from their mistakes, crises, accidents, and bankruptcies—that is, a posteriori.
Most people need to surpass their predecessors; Plato managed to surpass all his successors.
It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.
We call narcissistic those individuals who behave as if they were the central residents of the world; those who do exactly the same in a set of two we call lovers or, better, “blessed by love."
Life’s beauty: the kindest act toward you in your life may come from an outsider not interested in reciprocation.
My biggest problem with modernity may lie in the growing separation of the ethical and the legal.