"Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in be...

The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.
~ Thomas Aquinas ~












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