Having broken the outward forms, so as to liberate, allegedly, the inner meaning of the good, the beautiful, and the true, the spiritualizers, who set the pace of Western cultural life from just before the beginning to a short time after the end of the nineteenth century, have given way now to their logical and historical successors, the psychologizers, inheritors of that dualist tradition which pits human nature against social order.
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McCarthy on History and the Might Have Been
In history there are no control groups. There is no one to tell us what might have been. We weep over the might have been, but there is no might have been. There never was. It is supposed to be true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don’t believe knowing can save us.
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Kerry Koller on the Legacy of Socrates
It started with Socrates. He began by discussing the nature of truth with his friends. Among them was born the first community of learners about which we have any reliable evidence. This community laid the conceptual foundation for a society governed by human dignity and justice, the rule of law and ideals of moral character. All of us are the heirs of that society. If such a humane culture is to continue, we need to reforge it constantly in our elementary and secondary classrooms.
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Aleksander Hemon on the Nature of the World
All the lives we could live, all the people we will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is what the world is.
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Blake on the Infinite Manifest
To see a world in a grain of sand, And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And Eternity in an hour.