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Plato's allegory of the cave by Jan Saenredam, according to Cornelis van Haarlem, 1604, Albertina, Vienna. Plato's allegory of the cave is an allegory presented by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work Republic (514a–520a, Book VII) to compare "the effect of education (παιδεία) and the lack of it on our nature".
Men Explain Things to Me is a 2014 essay collection by the American writer Rebecca Solnit, published by Haymarket Books.The book originally contained seven essays, the main essay of which was cited in The New Republic as the piece that "launched the term mansplaining". [1]
Forster cautiously welcomes democracy for two reasons: . It places importance on the individual (at least more than authoritarian regimes). It allows criticism. Thus, he calls for "two cheers for democracy" (also the title of the book which contains his essay) but argues that this is "quite enough" and that "there is no occasion to give three."
3. At first there was only darkness wrapped in darkness. All this was only unillumined cosmic water. That One which came to be, enclosed in nothing, arose at last, born of the power of knowledge. 4. In the beginning desire descended on it - that was the primal seed, born of the mind. The sages who have searched their hearts with wisdom
Streaking the darkness radiantly!—yet soon Night closes round, and they are lost forever: Or like forgotten lyres, whose dissonant strings Give various response to each varying blast, To whose frail frame no second motion brings One mood or modulation like the last. We rest.—A dream has power to poison sleep;
6:15 a.m. ET: Mangione purchased a water bottle and granola bars from a nearby Starbucks. Investigators later linked Mangione to the crime scene through fingerprints on the bottle and snack wrappers.
"East Coker" continues the examination of time and meaning, focusing in a famous passage on the nature of language and poetry. Out of darkness, Eliot offers a solution: "I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope." "The Dry Salvages" treats the element of water, via images of river and sea.
Wall Street analysts expect gold's rally to keep going in 2025 after the precious metal saw its biggest annual jump in 14 years. On Thursday, gold futures jumped more than 1% to hover above $2,670 ...