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A book of radically unusual ideas drifts unread for centuries until a decade's new questions happen to be answered inside it, and then everyone reads it at once.
Drawn from what Ada Palmer said
What Ada Palmer actually said
- Ada Palmer Historian of the Renaissance and of the history of ideas
It is often the case that a work which contains radically unusual ideas will drift along being not particularly zoomed in on by society and not widely read until it hits a moment that the new questions being asked in that century or that decade are answered by something in that text.
Where this was said
Watch from 1:28:28 plays here↗Machiavelli is the most misunderstood thinker of all time – Ada Palmeryoutube.com
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