Two archetypes pervade Western thinking on the subject of how reality is best apprehended, archetypes that have their ultimate ori...gin in Plato and Aristotle. For Plato sense data were at best a distraction from knowledge, which was the province of unaided reason. For Aristotle, knowledge consisted in generalizations, but these were derived in the first instance from information gathered from the outside world. These two models of human thinking, termed rationalism and empiricism, respectively, formed the major intellectual legacy of the West down to Descartes and Bacon, who represented, in the seventeenth century, the twin poles of epistemology.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How the cold creeps as the fire dies at length How drifts are piled,... Dooryard and road ungraded, Till even the comforting barn grows far away, And my heart owns a doubt Whether 'tis in us to arise with day And save ourselves unaided.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the hand unaided ...by sight can feel action, sentiment, beauty in the cold marble; and yet it is true that I derive genuine pleasure from touching great works of art. As my finger tips trace line and curve, they discover the thought and emotion which the artist has portrayed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are the only class in history that has been left to fight its battles alone, unaided by the ruling powers. White labor and the ...freed black men had their champions, but where are ours?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For this invention of yours will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn it, by causing them to neglect their memory..., inasmuch as, from their confidence in writing, they will recollect by the external aid of foreign symbols, and not by the internal use of their own faculties. Your discovery, therefore, is a medicine not for memory, but for recollection,--for recalling to, not for keeping in mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »