I'm pretty well versed in stoicism. Trying to get into Sokrates. Recently finished East of Eden again, delicious.
This quote from Steinbeck:
"All the goodness and the heroisms will rise up again, then be cut down again and rise up. It isn’t that the evil thing wins — it never will — but that it doesn’t die. I don’t know why we should expect it to. It seems fairly obvious that two sides of a mirror are required before one has a mirror, that two forces are necessary in man before he is man.”
Love this. Any books or philosophy that delve into this frame of thinking?
Already have his Journal for East of Eden in tbr as well as A Life in Letters,
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