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If you belong to the majority, you can avoid thinking about lots of troubling things.” “And those troubling things are all you can think about when you’re one of the few.”
They were linked by a hypothetical umbilical cord. His mind floated in the amniotic fluid of memory, listening for echoes of the past.
“There’s nothing wrong with not looking like something. It just means you don’t fit the stereotype yet.”
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.’” “What is that?” “Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics.
“Was it Aristotle who said the human soul is composed of reason, will, and desire?” “No, that was Plato.