"Every body is in place; but nothing essentially incorporeal, or any thing of this kind, has any locality."

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“Porphyry, On the Cave of Nymphs, translated by Thomas Taylor”

“So people should abstain from other animals just as they should from the human.”

“Incorporeal hypostases, in descending, are distributed into parts, and multiplied about individuals with a diminution of power; but when they ascend by their energies beyond bodies, they become united, and proceed into a simultaneous subsistence, through exuberance of power.”

“The Pythagoreans made kindness to beasts a training in humanity and pity.”

“Porphyry, Auxiliaries to the Perception of Intelligible Natures, translated by Thomas Taylor”

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"Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep."

— Pliny the Elder

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"There's people outside our house; you get followed by photographers; you can't go out and have a cup of coffee with a friend without someone coming up to you"

— Jack Osbourne

Entertainment1985

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"A friendship across sectarian lines is not a common phenomenon, in his experience. In the past, it has struck him that, apart from homosexuals, only chess players have found a reliable way to bridge, …"

— Michael Chabon

Literature1963

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