Bcbe Portal Quotes & Sayings

To avert the danger [posed by theory] to life, Nietzsche could choose one of two ways: he could insist on the strictly esoteric character of the theoretical analysis of life that is, restore the Platonic notion of the noble delusion or else he could deny the possibility of theory proper and so conceive of thought as essentially subservient to, or dependent on, life or fate ... If not Nietzsche himself, at any rate his successors [Heidegger] adopted the second alternative. — Leo Strauss

Alexander also controlled me. Made me do things I didn't want to do." "Isn't that kind of the job of a parent?" Elvi asked, and then said, "Not the controlling part, but making the kid do things they don't want to do. Although," she said thoughtfully, "even the controlling part is something parents have to do too, only it's usually done with rewards, grounding, and threats of punishment rather than straight-up taking control. — Lynsay Sands

You are my star in the days of darkness; and light up my heart at all times. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

To work is to undertake to think something other than what one has thought before — Michel Foucault

Time may restore us in his course Goethe's sage mind and Byron's force: But where will Europe's latter hour Again find Wordsworth's healing power? — Matthew Arnold

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand. — Henry James

Mind severed from body, culture from planet- to lose our ground is to lose our home. — Anodea Judith