Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
in 1882—is the most vital and original book to be had relating to the time of Marcus Aurelius. Pater's "Marius the Epicurean" forms another outside commentary, which is of service in the imaginative attempt to create again the period.
Marcus Aurelius • Meditations
alina stefanescu, writer
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Today’s terror of short-termism — which, with fatal consequences, we mistake for freedom — destroys the practices that require time.
Noema • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information
Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say...
Beccaria,
Enrico Ferri • Criminal Sociology
Beccaria,
Enrico Ferri • Criminal Sociology
monstrous messianic
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Equality of opinion and freedom of publication threaten the notion of formal authority on which the previous social order was based.