Plato used the dialogue format because the exchange of views, the posing and answering of questions, showed that understanding is a living, dynamic process. He distrusted writing because the settled character of the written word makes it look as if truth can be fixed and made to stand still. It is worth remembering that this greatest advocate of the objective reality of truth also believed that our access to that truth was sustained in reasoned discussion.
If you were a medieval scholar reading a book, you knew that there was a reasonable likelihood you'd never see that particular text again, and so a high premium was placed on remembering what you read. You couldn't just pull a book off the shelf to consult it for a quote or an idea.
You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by.
No one tells us, girls who don't go on dates, that remembering can be almost as good as what actually happens.
We must set limits to our wishes, curb our desires, moderate our anger, always remembering that an individual can attain only an infinitesimal share in anything that is worth having; and that on the other hand, everyone must incur many of the ills of life
I thought you had forgotten me. ” “I have spent my life remembering you.
We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.
A monster, I think, remembering what Ben told me once. War makes Monsters of Men.
Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the remembering self refers to your feelings when you think about your life.
You pile up enough tomorrows and you'll be left with nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering.
Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.
The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, there was no longer anyone to remember with.
I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good Friends
they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and I keep on remembering mine
Clary closed her eyes. Remembering the way Jace had looked at her the night she'd freed Ithuriel, she couldn't help but imagine the way he'd look at her now if he saw her trying to lie down to die on the sand beside him. He wouldn't be touched, wouldn't think it was a beautiful gesture. He'd be angry at her for giving up. He'd be so--disappointed.
I'm like really bad at like remembering all these things, but basically we finished. . . we wrapped in August and we locked in February. It was like we did our first friends and family screening I would say 8-weeks after we locked. . . after we wrapped or 8-weeks after we wrapped.
Forgiving is forgetting, in spite of remembering.
Contrary to popular belief, it's not the legs that go first; it's remembering the word for legs.
If someone has offended you, insulted you, or disappointed you, let it go! If you are remembering all the ways you have been hurt or forgotten, let it go! Ask yourself, what good does it do for me to hold on to this?
Awareness of the inner body is consciousness remembering its origin and returning to the Source.