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01 / belief
“I think that certainly in the ancient world, they would have been spoken. But that doesn’t mean that’s the best way to receive them.”
02 / belief
“I would say, most of the time, I change my mind because people show me that I’m wrong.”
03 / belief
“I think that aspirants don’t really know what they’re doing, and so they’re going to make a lot of mistakes, and she definitely makes a mistake with Stefano.”
04 / belief
“Every time I’d tell the story of the aspiring gangster, I found that it could equally well be read as the story of the ambitious gangster, and there was no way to specify the difference, whereas I didn’t have that kind of problem when I talked about the aspiring student.”
05 / belief
“I think many reasons, but one of them that pops to my head is that often in philosophy, we’re trying to theorize some phenomenon.”
06 / belief
“Who’s responsible?” And I think his answer, in the form of Alcibiades’s speech, is that Alcibiades is responsible.”
07 / belief
“I think that, actually, all aspirants are going to be a little bit jerky. It’ll be characteristic of an aspirant that they’re defective, and so the fact that Stephen Dedalus doesn’t instantiate his own ideals is a sign that he is an aspirant.”
08 / belief
“I think one of the things that makes Hamlet so powerful is that it’s about how the inside of an experience — or the first-personal point of view on it — is significant.”
09 / belief
“I think that Socrates had a very parental relationship — it comes out in Phaedo.”
10 / belief
“What we see over the course of that is him working towards a kind of self-understanding as an artist, and I think he makes genuine progress there.”