Sociology and Explanations (Re: Hitchens responds to critics

[Chris Brooke]

>>From: James Heartfield <Jim at heartfield.demon.co.uk>
>>
>>I don't believe that you can rise above something if you can't imagine
>>it yourself. I hold to the nostrum (Herodotus?) 'nothing human is alien
>>to me'.
>
>Hear, hear, James.  Apparently that quote is from Terentius, though: 
>"Homo sum: humani nihil a me alienum puto." (I am a man; I think 
>nothing human is alien to me.)

Karl Marx's favourite maxim, too.

Chris

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The Confessions of Karl Marx:

Your favourite virtue: Simplicity
Your favourite virtue in man: Strength
Your favourite virtue in woman: Weakness
Your chief characteristic: Singleness of purpose
Your idea of happiness: To fight
Your idea of misery: Submission
The vice you excuse most: Gullibility
The vice you detest most: Servility
Your aversion: Martin Tupper
Favourite occupation: Book-worming
Favourite poet: Shakespeare. Aeschylus. Goethe
Favourite prosewriter: Diderot
Favourite hero: Spartacus, Kepler
Favourite heroine: Gretchen
Favourite flower: Daphne
Favourite colour: Red
Favourite name: Laura, Jenny
Favourite dish: Fish
Favourite maxim: nihil humani a me alienum puto
Favourite motto: de omnibus dubitandum