Even when I was young I wanted to be an actress.
That fact that Athens could condemn its noblest citizen to death did more than make a profound impression on him. It was to shape the course of his entire philosophic endeavor.
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 only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder.
History is one long chain of reflections. Hegel also indicated certain rules that apply for this chain of reflections. Anyone studying history in depth will observe that a thought is usually proposed on the basis of other, previously proposed thoughts. But as soon as one thought is proposed, it will be contradicted by another. A tension arises between these two opposite ways of thinking. But the tension is resolved by the proposal of a third thought which accommodates the best of both points of view. Hegel calls this a dialectic process
going only part of the way is not the same as going the wrong way
Philosophy is the opposite of fairy tales
[ Jonathan] Edwards is the person who really made theological determinism a serious option for Reformed thinkers, and the influence his views had in nineteenth century Reformed thought, in the USA and the UK in particular, is enormous.
Everything is symbolic. If they'd picked some middle-aged white guy, well, that would have been a symbol, but it wouldn't have been shocking because that's the expected norm, right? I felt I was a good match: here's an accomplished poet, and he's also gay and Latino.
You can tell how much fun a city is going to be if Nobu is in it.
By dint of that concern and because that society was willing to examine its particular reality, Solidarity could come into existence.