| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Republic by Plato: Yes, of the whole.
And he who dislikes learning, especially in youth, when he has no power of
judging what is good and what is not, such an one we maintain not to be a
philosopher or a lover of knowledge, just as he who refuses his food is not
hungry, and may be said to have a bad appetite and not a good one?
Very true, he said.
Whereas he who has a taste for every sort of knowledge and who is curious
to learn and is never satisfied, may be justly termed a philosopher? Am I
not right?
Glaucon said: If curiosity makes a philosopher, you will find many a
strange being will have a title to the name. All the lovers of sights have
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Case of the Golden Bullet by Grace Isabel Colbron and Augusta Groner: of the house in which the murder had occurred. Bauer had entered
from the Promenade after Muller had shown him how to work the lock
of the little gate. Together they went up into the apartment,
which was icy cold and uncanny in its loneliness. But the two men
did not appear to notice this, so greatly were they interested in
the task that had brought them there. First of all, they made a
most minute examination of the two doors which had been locked. The
keys were still in both locks on the inside. They were big heavy
keys, suitable for the tall massive heavily-paneled and
iron-ornamented doors. The entire villa was built in this heavy
old German style, the favourite fashion of the last few years.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson: instruments. But the great achievement of his life was, of course,
in optics as applied to lighthouse illumination. Fresnel had done
much; Fresnel had settled the fixed light apparatus on a principle
that still seems unimprovable; and when Thomas Stevenson stepped in
and brought to a comparable perfection the revolving light, a not
unnatural jealousy and much painful controversy rose in France. It
had its hour; and, as I have told already, even in France it has
blown by. Had it not, it would have mattered the less, since all
through his life my father continued to justify his claim by fresh
advances. New apparatus for lights in new situations was
continually being designed with the same unwearied search after
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