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One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers.

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The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible sense of the term hang together in the broadest possible sense of the term

Wilfrid

Wilfrid

Wilfrid

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Born: 634

Died: 709 (aged 75)

Bio: Wilfrid was an English bishop and saint. Born a Northumbrian noble, he entered religious life as a teenager and studied at Lindisfarne, at Canterbury, in Gaul, and at Rome; he returned to Northumbria in about 660, and became the abbot of a newly founded monastery at Ripon.

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