Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking. Login or Take a Tour!
So!
- Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable.
George Eliot
galen From a paper I'm writing. It's due tomorrow morning and I've just discovered a piece of evidence that shatters my argument. I like that sentence thoughAs such, the Athenians executed Socrates in [the Sophists'] stead, killing two birds with one hemlock.
–