Bradbury criticizes those who used their power to repress individual freedoms and also warns individuals to fight for their rights. ... Faber reinforces the idea of lack of individuality and conformity in his quote, 'the telewall is real. ... Fabers' quote illustrates how citizens are conditioned to conform and not question whether they are happy or not. ...
"Aristotle, "On the Soul- This quote speaks volumes about the attitude of philosophers like Socrates, whose work was put to parchment by Plato, and Artistotle. ... When faced with the decision to either repent his sinister truth-seeking ways or meet his end, Socrates felt it was most important to stick with the oracle, the God power from beyond which forsaw his quest as an important one, the little voice within him which was not of this realm and made suggestions for him to pursue further questionings of fellow Greeks. ... Though he is not as status-hungry and has no money...
That being said, Coleridge has a very interesting word choice in this quote, being the word "gale". According to the Oxford English Dictionary, gale can mean singing, or song, which fits perfectly in the description of music created by the Eolian harp, but what is unique about this choice is its other meaning of "gusts of wind", further emphasizing Coleridge's fascination with the idea of wind holding the power of music. The poem succeeds in not only describing how the wind can be the player with a bow across a musical instrument, but directing attenction to the almi...
This one line quote explains more about humans than any definition, research or a detailed book. ... Evaluation Cognitive science is the exact opposite of the humanistic approach which uses extremely predictive power, totally lacking scientist methods. ...
My pervious paper tells of a man in search of himself. It can be said that Descartes is the same as the unnamed man in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Both men are always searching for answers and looking around. He was a man in search of himself, a man not willing to follow the human r...
"The world is enigmatical, every thing said and every thing known and done, and must not be taken literally, but genially. We must be at the top of our condition to understand any thing rightly." - Ralph Waldo Emerson A Condensation of Its Context Toward the end of his notebook, "Naturalist," Ralph Waldo Emerson entered sentence (dated 1853) that marks a symbolic vision of nature familiar to his readers and, in more recent years, of concern to his ecologically minded critics: "He is the richest who has most use for nature as raw material of tropes and symbols with which to describe his life....
