Universities are diagnosed as temples for comfortable priests; true knowledge is found in the ordinary, mundane world with suffering people.
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Ordinary people
Universities are diagnosed as temples for comfortable priests; true knowledge is found in the ordinary, mundane world with suffering people.
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Homer is exceptional because there was no king to pay him; he had to appeal directly to ordinary poor people.
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"ox skins than on their honors and dignities I am too hot and scorched with thine own thought often is it ready to take..."
"...can only be found in the everyday in the mundane with ordinary people that's where God is okay universities are constructed to be away..."
"...to the people around him. Okay? He had to appeal to ordinary people. And so, the question then is, if you're a poet, how..."
"...in Europe. He wanted to write it in Tuscan so that ordinary people around him could access it. And as a result, Dante is..."
"...in Europe. He wanted to write it in Tuscan so that ordinary people around him could access it. And as a result, Dante is..."
"...plant and animal is a shadow dimension a place invisible to ordinary people but visible to the shaman this is the realm of the..."
"...that's meaningless that has actually no impact on the lives of ordinary people okay okay let's look at the military military so everyone believes..."
"...over -bureaucratization of society, it's almost impossible for middle class people, ordinary people to have a good life now. Okay? Here's another really interesting..."
"...and resonant, meaning they touch our souls. And again, these are ordinary people. So through iambic pentameter, Shakespeare's performing a surgery on the imagination..."
"Democratic sensibilities. This is really important. Okay? Homer was talking to ordinary people. Shakespeare was talking to ordinary people. The problem with today's culture..."
"...the educated elite but in the vernacular in Tuscan so that ordinary people could access it. And by doing so he transformed Tuscan into..."
"...what Shakespeare understood intuitively is no it's the common people the ordinary people that's where the truth lies okay not in books but in..."
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