Caring about what you are doing is considered either unimportant or taken for granted.
But apart from a personality what is there? Some bones and flesh. A collection of legal statistics, perhaps, but surely no person.
Between the lines Phaedrus read no doubts, no sense of awe, only the eternal smugness of the professional academician.
An egoless acceptance of stuckness is a key to an understanding of all Quality.
After a while you may find that the nibbles you get are more interesting than your original purpose of fixing the machine.
A finely tempered nature longs to escape from his noisy cramped surroundings into the silence of the high mountains where the eye ranges freely through the still pure air and fondly traces out the res...
A classical understanding sees the world primarily as underlying form itself. A romantic understanding sees it primarily in terms of immediate appearance.
A classical understanding sees the world primarily as underlying form itself. A romantic understanding sees it primarily in terms of immediate appearance. If you were to show an engine or a mechanical...
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...
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...
Most people stand in sight of the spiritual mountains all their lives and never enter them, being content to listen to others who have been there and thus avoid the hardships.
Classically as well as romantically ugly because it means the cylinder is getting too much gas and not enough air.
You see things vacationing on a motorcycle in a way that is completely different from any other. In a car you're always in a compartment, and because you're used to it you don't realize that through t...
You look at where you’re going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you’ve been and a pattern seems to emerge. And if you project forward from that pattern, then...
You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in.
What’s wrong with technology is that it’s not connected in any real way with matters of the spirit and of the heart. And so it does blind, ugly things quite by accident and gets hated for that. People...
What’s new? is an interesting and broadening eternal question, but one which, if pursued exclusively, results only in an endless parade of trivia and fashion, the silt of tomorrow. I would like, inste...
What the classical formalists meant by the objection Quality is just what you like was that this subjective, undefined quality he was teaching was just romantic surface appeal. Classroom popularity co...
What is the truth and how do you know it when you have it?... How do we really know anything? Is there an I a soul, which knows, or is this soul merely cells coordinating senses?... Is reality basical...
To live only for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountain which sustain life, not the top. Here’s where things grow.