A Profound Contradiction of Human Existence
“Science does not reveal the meaning of our existence, but it does draw back some of the veils.” “Be not deceived,” Epictetus writes in The Discourses, “every animal is attached to nothing so much as to its own interest.” Few things are more in our nature than our yearning for permanence. And yet all …
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