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Ep 43 - Self-Reliance (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

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The Most Perceptive Character in a Play

With character ethics, we always start with our selves. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none thiss. This is why the true sayers have been burnt at the stake in every age,. And this is why the most perceptive character in a play, as don quixote points out, is the fool. As wickenstein said, a serious philosophical work could be written comprised entirely of jokes.

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