| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Theaetetus by Plato: percipient; nothing can become sweet which is sweet to no one.
THEAETETUS: Certainly not.
SOCRATES: Then the inference is, that we (the agent and patient) are or
become in relation to one another; there is a law which binds us one to the
other, but not to any other existence, nor each of us to himself; and
therefore we can only be bound to one another; so that whether a person
says that a thing is or becomes, he must say that it is or becomes to or of
or in relation to something else; but he must not say or allow any one else
to say that anything is or becomes absolutely:--such is our conclusion.
THEAETETUS: Very true, Socrates.
SOCRATES: Then, if that which acts upon me has relation to me and to no
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Red Seal by Natalie Sumner Lincoln: door. "This is my office."
"Ah, yes, I thought as much on seeing only one desk," McIntyre's
manner grew more cordial. "Does Rochester's furniture duplicate
yours, safe and all?"
"Safe - no, he has none; that is the firm's safe." Kent was
becoming restless under so many personal questions. "Good-by, Mr.
Clymer."
"Don't forget to-night at eight," the banker reminded him before
stepping into the corridor. "We'll dine at the Club de Vingt.
Come along, McIntyre."
Sylvester stopped Kent on his way back to his office and handed
The Red Seal |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx: society being sprung into the air.
Though not in substance, yet in form, the struggle of the
proletariat with the bourgeoisie is at first a national struggle.
The proletariat of each country must, of course, first of all
settle matters with its own bourgeoisie.
In depicting the most general phases of the development of the
proletariat, we traced the more or less veiled civil war, raging
within existing society, up to the point where that war breaks
out into open revolution, and where the violent overthrow of the
bourgeoisie lays the foundation for the sway of the proletariat.
Hitherto, every form of society has been based, as we have
The Communist Manifesto |
