The Coloured Universe

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Cardinal Bellarmine

To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin.

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이 구절을 읽고서야 비로소,

그가 얼마나 영리한 사람인지 깨달았다,

우하하하,

위선과 가식과 걸친 옷의 무게만큼 무거운 존재들,

그래서 당신들의 재판결과는?

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George Orwell

He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him).

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이 구절을 읽다가 무지하게 웃다가 결국은 책을 사서 나왔던 기억이 난다,

개인의 취향과 신념과의 사이에 세들어사는 무수한 모순들을 한 구절로 간명하게,

으...지금도 미치도록 웃긴다,

그래서 허탈하다,

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Thomas Hobbes

They that approve a private opinion, call it opinion; but they that mislike it, heresy: and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion.

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통찰력이 돋보이는 구절들이 많다,

엉터리 번역본을 잡고,

보낸 20대의 시간들이 좀 속상하긴 하지만,

중요한건 정신을 만나는 것,

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Denis Diderot

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

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이해안됨,

it이 뭐지?

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At the behest of the criterion of authenticity, much that was once thought to make up the very fabric of culture has come to seem of little account, mere fantasy or ritual, or downright falsification. Conversely, much that culture traditionally condemned and sought to exclude is accorded a considerable moral authority by reason of the authenticity claimed for it, for example, disorder, violence, unreason.

Lionel Trilling

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그랬군, '왜'인지 좀 더 찾아봐야겠다,

혹, 또, 역사의 간지니 뭐니, 그런 쉽고 맥빠지는 답을 듣게 될까,