Plato – The Enlightened Must Descend to the Prisoners
I mean that they remain in the upper world: but this must not be allowed; they must be made to descend again among the prisoners in the den, and partake of their labours and honours, whether they are worth having or not. Plato, Allegory of the Cave
Definition of Attribute – Spinoza
By attribute, I mean that which the intellect perceives as constituting the essence of substance. Ethics by Benedict de Spinoza (1677)
Plato – From the World of Becoming into That of Being – The Cave
Whereas, our argument shows that the power and capacity of learning exists in the soul already; and that just as the eye was unable to turn from darkness to light without the whole body, so too the instrument of knowledge can only by the movement of the whole soul be turned from the world of becoming into […]
Plato – Allegory of the Cave: The Republic Book VII
BOOK VII. And now, I said, let me show in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened: Behold! human beings living in an underground den, which has a mouth open towards the light and reaching all along the den; here they have been from their childhood, and have their legs and necks […]
William James: Religion of the Once-Born and Religion of the Twice-Born
At the close of it we were brought into full view of the contrast between the two ways of looking at life which are characteristic respectively of what we called the healthy-minded, who need to be born only once, and of the sick souls, who must be twice-born in order to be happy. The result […]
Outrageous: Luxury of Sitting Home Surrounded by the Comforts of Family
Jeff Shaara: Rise to Rebellion pericope from book information By your actions here, you have demonstrated not only to Massachusetts, but to England, that Boston is not alone. A valiant army has arisen, has gathered around Boston to contain the growing threat from the British soldiers there. But, in fact, it is not an army […]