"Stoicism, whose very premise is the unique accuracy of the account of life provided by maturity, and in particular the account provided by the emotional life of successful, beleaguered, late-middle age, responded as antagonistically to wonder as it had to anger and grief. One of the best known of Stoic phrases is the phrase of Horace: 'nil admirer' ('nothing is to be wondered at')."
"Wonder is a horizon-effect of the known, the unknown, and the unknowable."
ReplyDelete"Stoicism, whose very premise is the unique accuracy of the account of life provided by maturity, and in particular the account provided by the emotional life of successful, beleaguered, late-middle age, responded as antagonistically to wonder as it had to anger and grief. One of the best known of Stoic phrases is the phrase of Horace: 'nil admirer' ('nothing is to be wondered at')."
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