"To his [ Plato's ] great disappointment, he found Anaxagoras adducing simple physical reasons, instead of the teleological reasons, which he had expected. Such a teacher could no longer allure him."

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George Henry Lewes

#Teacher Quotes #Plato Quotes #Disappointment Quotes

“He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.”
“In positive terms, we can state that psychological maturity entails finding greater satisfaction in giving than in receiving; having a capacity to form satisfying and permanent loyalties; being primarily a creative, contributing person; having learned to profit from experience; having a freedom from fear (anxiety) with a resulting true serenity and not a pseudo absence of tension; and accepting and making the most of unchangeable reality when it confronts one.”
“It is the political task of the social scientist â€” as of any liberal educator â€” continually to translate personal troubles into public issues, and public issues into the terms of their human meaning for a variety of individuals. It is his task to display in his work â€” and, as an educator, in his life as well â€” this kind of sociological imagination. And it is his purpose to cultivate such habits of mind among the men and women who are publicly exposed to him. To secure these ends is to secure reason and individuality, and to make these the predominant values of a democratic society.”

Source : C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Sociological Imagination”, p.187, Oxford University Press
“The truth is the truth. What changes is what we know about it and what we're willing to believe.”
“So many of my dreams were to actually be able to make a living of what I did as a hobby.”
“Being an MP feeds your vanity and starves your self- respect.”

Source : 1994 InTheTimes, 9 Feb.
“Television excites me because it seems to be the last stamping ground of poetry, the last place where I hear women's hair rhapsodically described, women's faces acclaimed in odelike language.”
“The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.”

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