Fedro era molto isolato. Non mi risulta che avesse amici intimi. Viaggiava da solo. Sempre. Era solo anche in mezzo agli altri. La gente a volte se ne accorgeva e si sentiva respinta, per cui non prov...
Classical understanding is concerned with the piles and the basis for sorting and interrelating them. Romantic understanding is directed toward the handful of sand before the sorting begins. Both are...
But what’s potential? That’s also in someone’s mind!…Ghosts.
But of course, without the top you can’t have any sides. It’s the top that defines the sides.
Aretê implies a respect for the wholeness or oneness of life, and a consequent dislike of specialization. It implies a contempt for efficiency—or rather a much higher idea of efficiency, an efficiency...
A slave mentality which had been built into him by years of carrot-and-whip grading, a mule mentality which said, If you don’t whip me, I won’t work. He didn’t get whipped. He didn’t work.
A complex assembly is best described first in terms of its substances: its subassembles and parts. Then, next, it is described in terms of its methods: its functions as they occur in sequence.
It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away. Puzzling.
We don’t usually see that there’s a third possible logical term equal to yes and no which is capable of expanding our understanding in an unrecognized direction. We don’t even have a term for it, so I...
The track of Quality preselects what data we’re going to be conscious of, and it makes this selection in such a way as to best harmonize what we are with what we are becoming.
The reality of the Good, represented by the Sophists, and the reality of the True, represented by the dialecticians, were engaged in a huge struggle for the future mind of man. Truth won, the Good los...
The idea that one person’s mind is accessible to another’s is just a conversational illusion, just a figure of speech, an assumption that makes some kind of exchange between basically alien creatures...
The competence of a speaker has no relevance to the truth
The art of the work is just as dependent upon your own mind and spirit as it is upon the material of the machine. That’s why you need the peace of mind.
Poisonous twentieth-century attitude. When you want to hurry something, that means you no longer care about it and want to get on to other things.
Partisan of the governor, said angrily that the legislature would prevent the school from losing its accreditation. Phaedrus asked how. The student said they would post police to prevent it. Phaedrus...
Not sure of much of anything these days. Maybe that’s why I talk so much.
Your common sense is nothing more than the voices of thousands and thousands of these ghosts from the past.
Your common sense is nothing more than the voices of thousands and thousands of these ghosts from the past. Ghosts and more ghosts. Ghosts trying to find their place among the living.
You, sir, what are the three kinds of particular rhetoric according to subject matter discussed? But Phaedrus is prepared. Forensic, deliberative and epideictic, he answers calmly. What are the epidei...