“For once the mind is stirred into motion, it is a slave to that which is driving it. With some things, the beginnings are in our power, but after that they carry us on by their own force, not allowing… — Margaret R. Graver Copy Share Image
“An example is Menelaus as depicted by Euripides. Drawing his sword, he moves toward Helen to slay her, but then, struck by the sight of her beauty, he casts away his sword and is no longer able to control even that. Hence this reproach is spoken to him: You, when you saw her breast, cast down your blade and took… — Margaret R. Graver Copy Share
“Human beings are rational creatures, in the descriptive though not always the normative sense of the word rational-and thus every impulse we form is… — Margaret R. Graver Copy Share Image
“For once the mind is stirred into motion, it is a slave to that which is driving it. With some things, the beginnings are… — Margaret R. Graver Copy Share Image
