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Augustine of Hippo

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Augustine of Hippo · 354–430 CE

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“Augustine turned philosophy inward — he discovered the inner life as a subject, and every memoir, every confession, every honest account of wanting two things at once descends from him.”
— The Great Philosophers, Ch. 58

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“The deepest philosophical territory is not the cosmos but the inside of a single human self — its divided will, its strange memory, its experience of time, and its restless desire, which no created thing can satisfy.”
— The Great Philosophers, Ch. 58

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