The one thing that unifies men in a given age is not their individual philosophies but the dominant problem that these philosophies are designed to solve. (Jacques Barzun)

The one thing that unifies men in a given age is not their individual philosophies but the dominant problem that these philosophies are designed to solve.

Jacques Barzun

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