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Bloom, Allan. The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students. Simon & Schuster, 1987.

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Burke, Edmund. "Speech on Conciliation with America." House of Commons. 22 Mar. 1775, Palace of Westminster, Westminster, London, England, UK.

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Burke, Edmund. "Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.

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De Montaigne, Michel. "De la Vanite [Of Vanity]." Essais [Essays]. Paris: Simon Millanges and Jean Richer, 1580.

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De Montaigne, Michel. "On Vanity." The Complete Essays, edited and translated by M. A. Screech. Penguin Classics, 1993.

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Schopenhauer, Arthur. "Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life: What a Man Has." Parerga und Paralipomena. Vol. 1, Berlin: Druck und Verlag von U. W. Haan, 1851.

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Schopenhauer, Arthur. "Aphorisms on the Wisdom of Life." Parerga and Paralipomena, translated by Sabine Roehr and Christopher Janaway. Vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, 2016.

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Smith, Adam. "The History of Astronomy." Essays on Philosophical Subjects. London: T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies/Edinburgh: W. Creech, 1795, sect. 3, para. 3.

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Smith, Adam. "The History of Astronomy." Essays on Philosophical Subjects, edited by W. P. D. Wightman. Liberty Fund, 1982, sect. 3, para. 3.

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Arendt, Hannah. On Revolution. Penguin Books, 1963, ch. 2, sec. 5.

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Seneca the Younger. Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium [Moral Letters to Lucilius]. c. 65 AD.

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Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Letters on Ethics, translated by Margaret Graver and A. A. Long. University of Chicago Press, 2017.

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Burke, Edmund. Philosophical Enquiry in the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. London: R and J. Dodsley, 1757, pt. 2, sect. 2.

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Burke, Edmund. "Philosophical Enquiry in the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009, pt. 2, sect. 2.

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Seneca the Younger. Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium [Moral Letters to Lucilius]. c. 65 AD.

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Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Letters on Ethics, translated by Margaret Graver and A. A. Long. University of Chicago Press, 2017.

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Burke, Edmund. "Speech to the Electors of Bristol," 3 Nov. 1774, Bristol, UK.

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Burke, Edmund. "Speech at the Conclusion of the Poll at Bristol (3 November 1774)." Reflections on the Revolution in France and Other Writings. Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.

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Bacon, Francis. The Advancement of Learning. London: Oxford: Rob Youn and Ed Forrest, 1605, bk. 2, ch. 20, sect. 8.

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Bacon, Francis. "The Advancement of Learning." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 2, ch. 20, sect. 8.

The man who has no inner life is a slave to his surroundings.

Henri Frederic Amiel

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Amiel, Henri-Frédéric. Journal entry. 7 Jan. 1866.

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Burke, Edmund. Reflections on the Revolution in France. London: James Dodsley, 1790.

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Burke, Edmund. "Reflections on the Revolution in France." The Portable Edmund Burke, edited by Isaac Kramnick. Penguin, 2009.

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Fanon, Frantz. Les Damnes de la Terre [The Wretched of the Earth]. Francois Maspero, 1961, conclusion.

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Schopenhauer, Arthur. "Ueber die Weiber [On Women]." Parerga und Paralipomena. Vol. 2, Berlin: Druck und Verlag von U. W. Haan, 1851.

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Schopenhauer, Arthur. "On Women." Parerga and Paralipomena, translated by Adrian Del Caro and Christopher Janaway. Vol. 2, Cambridge University Press, 2017.

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Carlyle, Thomas. "Sir Walter Scott." London and Westminster Review, 12 Nov. 1838.

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Carlyle, Thomas. "Sir Walter Scott." The Works of Thomas Carlyle, edited by Henry Duff Traill. Vol. 29, Cambridge University Press, 2010.

The new philosophy proceeds from the world, the book of God.

Tommaso Campanella

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Campanella, Tommaso. Apologia pro Galileo [In Defense of Galileo]. Frankfurt am Main: Gottfried Tampach, 1622, ch. 4.

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Campanella, Thomas. Defense of Galileo, translated by Richard J. Blackwell. University of Notre Dame Press, 1994, ch. 4.

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Watts, Alan. Play to Live: Selected Seminars. And Books, 1982.

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Carlyle, Thomas. "Sartor Resartus." Fraser's Magazine, Nov. 1833–Aug. 1834. Serial.

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Carlyle, Thomas. Sartor Resartus, edited by Kerry McSweeney and Peter Sabor. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 1, ch. 5.

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Arendt, Hannah. "On Violence." Crises of the Republic. Vintage, 1972, ch. 3. Originally published as "A Special Supplement: Reflections on Violence." by The New York Review, 27 Feb. 1969.