... a simple, "ready-made thought from which thinking has been evaporated,"" as Gerd B. Achenbach describes in his essay, Orphic Underworld Philosophy. Gerd goes on to explain two reasons for which he believes are the causes of this tendency in humans. The first is the insight, which seemingly all humans posses, ... and is certainly true today. Observe any corporate CEO (legitimately hard-working that is), athletic coach, or even priest; these people are in put power positions because they are believed to have knowledge others don't. Achenbach's second reason is the widely believed claim tha...

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... his faults." This quote and many others like it state the belief of Confucius, and his moral character that have taught many people, and still live on in today's society. This was the beginning of Confucius" teachings of benevolence and attempts to teach self-improvement of a man through the love of ... a single flaw. But it is the flaws of man that create greatness. Confucius never believed in perfection, but used everyone's flaws to understand people on order to develop the good in all. Confucius believed that benevolence, or what he called jen, was the most important moral quality tha...

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... the use of an illegitimate drug. De Quincy goes to great pains to explain his one year of poverty, which seems like a ten year ordeal. When he is on the streets he tells of stories of some people he had met but even then it seems a little faded to mind. De Quincy returned to college, in Oxford ... . This is probably because De Quincy's drug habit becomes really strong and starts to effect his work. As quoted in a biography of him, "His book also included quotes in Greek, Latin and Italian, and with out considering its intellectually and physically corruptive effects, De Quincy took the d...

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... style of writing was the need to appeal to the growing and wealthy middle class or bourgeoisie who had begun to gain respect and power. Many of these novels such as Charles Dickens' Great Expectations held up a self-proclaiming mirror to the middle class recording their epic ... the "we" the "Georgians" have a quarrel with them. She goes on to criticize the way Wells, Bennett and Galsworthy represent "life". In one of her most famous quotes she says: "Examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day. The mind receives a myriad of impressions-trivial, fantastic, ... with "dark pla...

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