Sublime

his story expressed one of the unappeasable longings of the human imagination: the idea of a perfected society in which the world’s lost innocence will be restored and the Golden Age before the Fall will return.

for to the good poor man old age cannot be a light burden, nor can a bad rich man ever have peace with himself.

callow,

He was twenty-eight when the master died; and this tragic end of a quiet life left its mark on every phase of the pupil’s thought. It filled him with such a scorn of democracy, such a hatred of the mob, as even his aristocratic lineage and breeding had hardly engendered in him; it led him to a Catonic resolve that democracy must be destroyed, to be

They lose attention because many of their teachers have lost attention, shed it in the heat of a formation that narrowed intellectual excellence down to one kind of performance, one kind of white body-mind.

En remplaçant la quête du bien par celle du bien-être, nous affaiblissons la république. Socrate n’était pas essentiel à la démocratie athénienne pour les réponses qu’il apportait ou non à ses questions, mais parce qu’il les posait et, en les posant, invitait chacun à sortir de sa condition individuelle. Le résultat comptait moins que le chemin. Ou

nominalist

If a person seems to have a good grasp of a book or other artistic or aesthetic object, by all means be willing to let the conversation flow in that direction, because you will end up staring right into that person’s soul.