Blakey Vermeule: 1 book
Action versus Contemplation
Why an Ancient Debate Still Matters
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone,” Blaise Pascal wrote in 1654. But then there’s Walt Whitman, in 1856: “Whoever you are, come forth! Or man or woman come forth! / You must not stay sleeping and dallying there in the house.”
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