It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.
I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do.
I think the ordinary is a very under-exploited aspect of our lives because it is so familiar.
Even ordinary people aren't ordinary, not really. They're filled up with thoughts and feelings that you might never know are there until they suddenly materialise.
What I see everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power, and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice, and beauty to this world.
I think most of us are raised with preconceived notions of the choices we're supposed to make.
Whatever we, as prospective participants unaware of our specific features, would desire society to be like is what, morally speaking, we ought to institute.
If you can sit all generations of a family down and entertain them and, at the same time, leave them talking about existential notions, then that's fantastic.
I've always been interested in this idea of a privileged life, probably because it's something I hadn't seen much of.
Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.