| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Theaetetus by Plato: say that his mind is truly exercised, but has no knowledge; for he who
cannot give and receive a reason for a thing, has no knowledge of that
thing; but when he adds rational explanation, then, he is perfected in
knowledge and may be all that I have been denying of him. Was that the
form in which the dream appeared to you?
THEAETETUS: Precisely.
SOCRATES: And you allow and maintain that true opinion, combined with
definition or rational explanation, is knowledge?
THEAETETUS: Exactly.
SOCRATES: Then may we assume, Theaetetus, that to-day, and in this casual
manner, we have found a truth which in former times many wise men have
|
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: never been in the midst of so peculiarly intense a stillness;
it was almost a delicate sensual pleasure. It was all very good,
very innocent and safe, and out of it something good must come.
Augustine, indeed, who had an unbounded faith in her mistress's wisdom
and far-sightedness, was a great deal perplexed and depressed.
She was always ready to take her cue when she understood it; but she
liked to understand it, and on this occasion comprehension failed.
What, indeed, was the Baroness doing dans cette galere? what fish
did she expect to land out of these very stagnant waters?
The game was evidently a deep one. Augustine could trust her;
but the sense of walking in the dark betrayed itself in the
|
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake: My thoughtless hand
Has brushed away.
Am not I
A fly like thee?
Or art not thou
A man like me?
For I dance,
And drink, and sing,
Till some blind hand
Shall brush my wing.
If thought is life
Songs of Innocence and Experience |
