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He has a last request to make to them—that they will trouble his sons as he has troubled them, if they appear to prefer riches to virtue, or to think themselves something when they are nothing.
Socratic humility defined. To not think you are something when you are nothing. Do not think of yourselves more highly than you ought. But with sober judgment..,


“How can I find the words? Poets have taken them all and left me with nothing to say or do"
"Except to teach me for the first time what they meant.”
― Busman's Honeymoon
"Except to teach me for the first time what they meant.”
― Busman's Honeymoon

“The difficulty faced by a philosopher who, like myself, is sympathetic to this suggestion [e.g., Foucault’s]—one who thinks of himself as auxiliary to the poet rather than to the physicist—is to avoid hinting that this suggestion gets something right, that my sort of philosophy corresponds to the way things really are. For this talk of correspondence brings back just the idea my sort of philosopher wants to get rid of, the idea that the world or the self has an intrinsic nature.”
― Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault
― Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault

“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.”
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“Do you mortify; do you make it your daily work; be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.”
― The Mortification Of Sin
― The Mortification Of Sin

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