But also, don't obsess. Read casually, be prepared for the long path...
"No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance."
- Confucius
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So much of Ancient Greek philosophy is like this. The form of the idea is a work of art from thousands of years ago. We can appreciate it from that perspective.
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"There is but a step between a proud man's glory and his disgrace."
- Publilius Syrus
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"He was a man who looked at what ought to be done, not to the reputation which is got by a man's acts."
- Marcus Aurelius
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"I had always heard it maintained by my father, and was myself convinced, that the object of education should be to form the strongest possible associations of the salutary class; associations of pleasure with all things beneficial to the great whole, and of pain with all things hurtful to it."
- John Stuart Mill
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"A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners."
- Seneca the Younger
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"The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals. Thus the first fact to be established is the physical organisation of these individuals and their consequent relation to the rest of nature."
- Karl Marx
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"The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."
- Thomas Henry Huxley
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"We are by no means opposed to the globalization of relationships as such-in fact, as we said, the strongest forces of Leftist internationalism have effectively led this process. The enemy, rather, is a specific regime of global relations that we call Empire."
- Antonio Negri
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