A Inutilidade é uma Virtude
The trouble with the educated philistine was not that he read the classics but that he did so with the ulterior motive of self-perfection, remaining quite unaware that Shakespeare or Plato might have to tell him more important things than how to educate himself (…).
Hannah Arendt, The Crisis in Culture
Between Past and Future, 1961
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