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Wasn't it odd that she didn't know who she was? And wasn't it unreasonable that she hadn't been allowed to have any say in what she would look like?
I'm not playing!' Sophie retorted indignantly, 'I'm doing a very important philosophical experiment!
If a baker makes fifty absolutely identical cookies, he must be using the same pastry mold for all of them.
It was a beautiful thought that all living things were imperfect copies of the eternal forms in the world of ideas.
If our brains were as simple as we could understand them, than we would be so stupid that we couldn't understand them again.
Nothing happens accidentally. everything happens through necessity, so it is of little use to complain when fate comes knocking at the door.
The philosopher had rescued her. The unknown letter writer had saved her from the triviality of everyday existence.
The soul yearns to fly home on the wings of love to the world of ideas. It longs to be freed from the chains of the body.
I didn't feel lonely until there was something to yearn for. Loneliness and longing are two sides of the same coin.
Nothing is ever actually invented by the mind. The mind puts things together and constructs false ideas
When you realize there is something you don't understand, then you're generally on the right path to understanding all kinds of things.
The expectation of one thing following another does not lie in the things themselves, but in our mind. And expectation is associated with habit.
There are five billion people living on this planet. But you fall in love with one particular person, and you won't swap her for any other.
When we sense something, it is due to the movement of atoms in space. When I see the moon it is because "moon atoms" penetrate my eye.
Not everybody can let himself drift along the flow of history. Some of us have to stop to pick up what's washed up on the banks of the river.
Hegel said that 'truth' is subjective, thus rejecting the existence of any 'truth' above or beyond human reason. All knowledge is human knowledge.
The stupidest thing she knew was for people to act like they knew all about the things they knew absolutely nothing about.
The rearing of children is considered too important to be left to the individual and should be the responsibility of the state.
Acting responsibly is not a matter of strengthening our reason but of deepening our feelings for the welfare of others.
When two people meet," he said, "and one is upside down, it isn't always easy to tell which of them is the right way up.
She felt that it was only her body that was getting old. Inside she had always been the same young girl.
Why was it so difficult to be absorbed in the most vital and, in a way, the most natural of all questions?
The story goes that one day Socrates stood gazing at a stall that sold all
kinds of wares. Finally he said, What a lot of things I don't need!
kinds of wares. Finally he said, What a lot of things I don't need!
On the Contrary, to Aristotle the 'forms' were in the things because they were the particular characteristics of these things
But it's important to be happy about the little you have. However little it is, it's infinitely more than nothing.
If the human brain were simple enough for us to understand, we would still be so stupid that we couldn't understand it.
But understanding will always require some effort. You probably wouldn't admire a friend who was good at everything if it cost her no effort.
The question of whether a thing is right or wrong, good or bad, must always be considered in relation to a persons needs.
Long before the child learns to talk properly ... the world will have become a habit. A pity, if you ask me.
The very best that can happen is to have energetic opponents. The more extreme they become, the more powerful the reaction they will have to face.
Indeed, there is pain when spring buds burst..."
Wasn't there a Swedish poet who had said something like that? Or was she Finnish?
Wasn't there a Swedish poet who had said something like that? Or was she Finnish?
It is extraordinary to think about. We still speak of Socratic or Platonic philosophy, but actually being Plato or Socrates is quite another matter.
If an overgrown child draws something on a piece of paper, you can't ask the paper what the drawing is supposed to represent.
Do you mind telling me what's suddenly so important?'
Sophie just shook her head. 'It's ... it's a secret.'
'Yuck! You're probably in love.
Sophie just shook her head. 'It's ... it's a secret.'
'Yuck! You're probably in love.
But Dad said we had to try, because neither he or I could bear the thought of living the rest of our lives without her.
If our brain was simple enough for us to understand it, we would be so stupid we wouldn't be able to understand it after all.