"The Socratic teacher turns his students away from himself and back onto themselves; he hides in paradoxes, makes himself inaccessible. The intimate relationship between student and teacher here is not one of submission, but of a contest for truth."

--

Source : Karl Jaspers (1965). “The idea of the university”

Karl Jaspers

#Teacher Quotes #Students Quotes #Paradox Quotes

“The only virtue on which I pride myself is my self-doubt; when a writer loses her self-doubt, the time has come to lay aside her pen.”
“I was looking for something to make me happy, and once I realised what I actually had, then I found success.”
“Help along one another's projects and plans.”
“[Otto Struve] made the remark once that he never looked at the spectrum of a star, any star, where he didn't find something important to work on.”
“Comedy is the drug, when they laugh it's like I'm a jazz musician and they hear it, and they get it. It's power to take the crowd wherever I want them to go. I love it when they laugh, especially when they relate through laughter. It's a beautiful thing. It also means I'm going to get paid, which is nice.”
“At the end of the day, successful box office just means that more people saw what you did and liked it, and that to me is the most important thing. That a lot of people saw it and liked it.”
“One step at a time, a man walked on the moon. One record got played, Kool Herc said, 'Boom!'”
“When I look at life I try to be as agnostic and unmetaphysical as possible. So I have to admit that, most probably, we do not have a fate. But I think that's something that draws us to novels - that the characters always have a fate. Even if it's a terrible fate, at least they have one.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

You may also like:

Edmund Husserl
Philosopher
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philologist
Gabriel Marcel
Philosopher
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Philosopher
Hannah Arendt
Philosopher
Immanuel Kant
Philosopher
Jean-Paul Sartre
Philosopher
Martin Heidegger
Philosopher
Soren Kierkegaard
Philosopher