User:Heroeswithmetaphors

After all, the cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopaedia.
Umberto Eco
Serendipities: Language and Lunacy (1998)

Keiten-aijin (敬天愛人) "revere heaven, love people". Calligraphy by Saigō Takamori

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The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster. —David Hume in On Suicide