It Is Wrong To Ask Who Will

Whenever We Propose A Solution To A Problem, We Ought To Try As Hard As We Can To Overthrow Our Solution, Rather Than Defend It.

When We Enter A New Situation In Life And Are Confronted By A New Person, We Bring With Us The Prejudices Of The Past And Our Previous Experiences Of People. These Prejudices We Project Upon The New Person. Indeed, Getting To Know A Person Is Largely A Matter Of Withdrawing Projections; Of Dispelling The Smoke Screen Of What We Imagine He Is Like And Replacing It With The Reality Of What He Is Actually Like.

There Is No History, Only Histories.

With Regards To Political Enemies Plato Had A Kill-and-banish Principle. ... In Interpreting It , Modern-day Platonists Are Clearly Disturbed By It, Even As They Make Elaborate Attempts To Defend Plato.

Man, Some Modern Philosophers Tell Us, Is Alienated From His World: He Is A Stranger And Afraid In A World He Never Made. Perhaps He Is; Yet So Are Animals, And Even Plants. They Too Were Born, Long Ago, Into A Physico-chemical World, A World They Never Made.