Carolina QuotesThe very possibility that there may exist timeless truths is a reproach to the life of laxness and indifference which modern egotism encourages. … Ideas which have their reference to the periphery or individuum, to the particular in space and time, are false and stand in the way of integration.
Richard M. Weaver Carolinian
Source
p. 68
- work
- Ideas have Consequences (1948)
- year
- 1948
- locator
- p. 68
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