Father is a school manqué ... He always wanted to write books. But he became rich instead, so is not allowed.
Tags: writing, wishes, wealth, books, aspirations

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Caius was one of those who gloried in his ignorance, called his lack of letters purity, scorned any subtlety of thought or expression. A man for his time, indeed.
Tags: stupidity, ignorance, education, crudeness, coarseness, civilization
When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame the Nazis alone, and the Nazis will try to blame Hitler alone. They will make him bear the sins of the world. But it's not true. You suspected what was happening, and so did I. It was already too late over a year ago. I caused a reporter to lose his job because you told me to. He was deported. The day I did that I made my little contribution to civilization, the only one that matters.
Tags: willful-ignorance, responsibility, personal-responsibility, nazis, knowledge, hitler, guilt, genocide, evil, deportation, denunciation, cowardice, civilization, blame
Was not Hypatia the greatest philosopher of Alexandria, and a true martyr to the old values of learning? She was torn to pieces by a mob of incensed Christians not because she was a woman, but because her learning was so profound, her skills at dialectic so extensive that she reduced all who queried her to embarrassed silence. They could not argue with her, so they murdered her.
Tags: women, suppression, superiority, skills, philosophers, murder, learning, knowledge, hypatia-of-alexandria, greatness, education, dialectics, abilities
In my small way, I preserved and catalogued, and dipped into the vast ocean of learning that awaited, knowing all the time that the life of one man was insufficient for even the smallest part of the wonders that lay within. It is cruel that we are granted the desire to know, but denied the time to do so properly. We all die frustrated; it is the greatest lesson we have to learn.
Tags: wonder, life-lessons, learning, knowledge, insufficiency, frustration
Do you know, the only people I can have a conversation with are the Jews? At least when they quote scripture at you they are not merely repeating something some priest has babbled in their ear. They have the great merit of disagreeing with nearly everything I say. In fact, they disagree with almost everything they say themselves. And most importantly, they don't think that shouting strengthens their argument.
Tags: shouting, religion, judaism, jews, independent-thought, freedom-of-thought, faith, doctrine, discussion, disagreement, blind-faith, argument
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