“The classics have a way of saving you the trouble of prolonged experiences. You don’t have to go out and buy pop psychology self-help books. When you read the classics in the humanities, you become aware that the big ideas have been around a long time, despite the fact that they are often served up today in modern psychological ‘explanations’ of human action as novel and ‘scientific’.”— James Stockdale, Thoughts of a Philosophical Fighter Pilot
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