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«Socrates, you will remember, asked all the important questions - but he never answered any of them»
«Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the w»
Author: Francis Quarles
(Poet)
| Keywords:
Aristotle, cheat, delightful, Plato, recommendation, recommendations, short-lived, short letter, Socrates, Theocritus, Theophrastus
«Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.»
«Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.»
Author: Tom Morris
| Keywords:
Alexander, Alexander the Great, Aristotle, named, Plato, Socrates, student
«I do not forget that I am a mechanic. I am proud to own it. Neither do I forget that . . . the apostle Paul was a tentmaker; Socrates was a sculptor; and Archimedes was a mechanic.»
Author: Andrew Jackson
(President)
| Keywords:
Apostle, Apostle Paul, Archimedes, Paul, Sculptor, Socrates, tentmaker, The Apostle
«A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.»
Author: Norman Cousins
(Editor, Essayist)
| About:
History,
Libraries,
Life
| Keywords:
delivery, famous, history of ideas, modify, place of birth, Socrates
«Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on ''The Survival of the Fittest.'' These are illustrious names, this is a mighty doctrine: nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it, but evolution.»
«I can easily imagine Socrates in Alexander's place; Alexander in that of Socrates - never»
«Is it so bad to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
Copernicus, flesh, Galileo, Luther, misunderstood, Pythagoras, Socrates
«Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of his author to some chasm of intelligence, and suppose that the sense which is now weak was once forcible,»
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