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Plato's concern is not just an intellectual issue, but it is knitted with emotional life as well.
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I've got access to your mysterious body but not your mysterious soul. Souls seem to me the loneliest possibility of all.
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Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die.
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Reality is infinite and we are finite and so there is a necessary mismatch between our knowledge of the world and the world itself.
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It's a tiresome proposition, having to take up the work of the Enlightenment all over again, but it's happened on your watch.
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Genius in a person was like weed that takes over the entire garden, that won't allow anything else to grow. (p. 251)
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Answers? Forget answers. The spectacle is all in the questions.
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That's one of the compensations for being mediocre. One doesn't have to worry about becoming mediocre.
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Plato worries our thinking might become too reflexive and comfortable with itself.
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And by the way, Sherlock Holmes is Jewish. He changed his name. I'm surprised you nerver guessed it. (p. 248)
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I have a Greek-American friend who named her daughter "Nike" and is often asked why she chose to name her offspring after a sneaker.
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Our failures in charity are chained to a narrowed vision of the world that makes too much of the differences between us, and this is our enslavement.
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The opposite of a plain truth, Neils Bohr liked to repeat, is a plain falsehood. But the opposite of a deep truth is another deep truth.
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Rational self-interest is always what morality boils down to.
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We must believe that he will come but never believe that he is come. There is no Messiah but an uncome Messiah.
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It was intolerable what lay hidden within another, intolerable tat you could not divide one person into another with no remainder.
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Philosophical thinking that doesn't do violence to one's settled mind is no philosophical thinking at all.
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In fact, it's the very impersonality of impersonal knowledge that renders such knowledge the most ethically potent of all.
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We need science. We need empirical evidence. We can't just use mathematical reasoning to deduce the nature of the world.
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For Jascha, artistic creation was the most private activity in the world: the soul's sacred and solitary communion with itself. (p. 244)
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Everybody makes excuses for themselves they wouldn't be prepared to make for other people.
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Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute.
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the recent novel by his wife Rebecca Goldstein, entitled 36 Arguments for the Existence of God, subtitled A Work of Fiction). The
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Freedom for me is a pain in the Buridan's ass.
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Thinking is the soul speaking to itself.
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As Plato: What is play and delightful one kind of child is coercion and torture for another, and will not take no matter how much coercion is applied.
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The only object we truly possess is our own mind. The only pleasure over which we have complete dominion is the progress of our own understanding.
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Conclusions that philosophers first establish by way of torturous reasoning have a way, over time, of leaking into shared knowledge.
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The secret of the demagogue is to appear as dumb as his audience so that these people can believe themselves as smart as he is.
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Those who share my heroes are, in the deepest sense, of my own kind.
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(I)n order to refute a conclusion, you have to put forth the best possible argument for it. (p. 158)
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Philosophy addresses, in a systematic and progress-making way, questions of deep concern to everyone.
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Youth is not an essential, but rather an accidental property. Nobody is in essence young. One either ceases to be or ceases to be young.
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Since physics is poetry, then poetry is physics, he propounded.
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I am beautiful for a brainy woman, brainy for a beautiful woman, but objectively speaking, neither beautiful nor brainy.
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Having your husband at a party is like adding anchovies to a salad. I love anchovies, but you can't taste anything else.
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Ven mazel kumt, shtelt im a shtul. When mazel comes, pull up a chair for it. (p. 292)
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If we look at our attitudes consistently and work out the logical implications we're on the road to moral progress, moral understanding.
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He hadn't altogether gotten it himself until this moment of seeing straight through to the soul of her.
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Mother' is not an identity one can just try on for size ...
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There's no reason. Mazel, Maurice. Only mazel. (p. 343)
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Blau suffered from a mild form of messianism, an ailment as common among Jewish males as nearsightedness. (p. 264)
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I don't think I can write the story of my life, but I can write the story of my hair.
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The will to matter is at least as important as the will to believe.
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leave me. And it was a great sense of relief. The
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Less money spent on billboards that just make us feel good about ourselves and more on soup kitchens and organized visits to the sick and dying.
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inside out, with all the Sturm und
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