Reflections

Reflections

Rating

7.0

The Pequod Review:

Andreas Laskaratos (1811-1901) was a Greek writer and poet, and this posthumously-published book pulls together his observations on various religious, social, moral and political topics. E.g.:

Chief aim of the orator or writer should not be to make us admire the technical complexity of his phrases, but to make us understand directly, and with the greatest possible ease, his meaning.

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The greater the inconsistency, paradoxically and grotesquery in religions, so much the greater their religious authenticity and competence.

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An unpleasant truth is better than a pleasant flattery.