Quotes
Quotes
Wouldn't it be said of him that he'd returned from his upward journey with his eyesight ruined and that it isn't worthwhile even to try to travel upward? And, as for anyone who tried to free them and lead them upward, if they could somehow get their hands on him, wouldn't they kill him?
--Plato, Republic, Book VII
Some say an army on horseback,
some say on foot, and some say ships
are the most beautiful things
on this black earth,
but I say
it is whatever you love.
some say on foot, and some say ships
are the most beautiful things
on this black earth,
but I say
it is whatever you love.
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These bodies have an end; but they are said to belong to the eternal embodied self - that which is never lost and cannot be measured. So fight, Son of Bharata!
--Bhagavad Gita, 2.18
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The minds of the
everlasting gods are not changed suddenly.
--Homer, Odyssey
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For rarely are
sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than
their fathers.
--Homer, Odyssey
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Tiresias: It is good to rest sometimes.
Kadmos: Then will you tell me why suddenly I feel grape-skins under my feet?
Kadmos: Then will you tell me why suddenly I feel grape-skins under my feet?
--Solé Woyinka, The Bacchae
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Study seems to be liked because of itself alone,
since it has no result beyond having been studied. But from the virtues concerned with action, we try to a
greater or lesser extent to gain something beyond the action itself.
--Aristotle, Ethics, Book X
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The human good proves to be activity of the soul in
accord with virtue, and indeed with the best and most complete virtue, if there
are more virtues than one.
--Aristotle, Ethics, Book I
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If only one end is complete, the good we are
looking for will be this end; if more ends than one are complete, it will be
the most complete end of these.
--Aristotle, Ethics, Book I
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Wouldn't it be said of him that he'd returned from his upward journey with his eyesight ruined and that it isn't worthwhile even to try to travel upward? And, as for anyone who tried to free them and lead them upward, if they could somehow get their hands on him, wouldn't they kill him?
--Plato, Republic, Book VII
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