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You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
Plato
Greek author & philosopher in Athens (427 BC - 347 BC)
To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator
than a party to the dispute.
Aristotle
Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)
Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and
they are growing.
Aristotle, 'Nicomachean Ethics'
Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC - 322 BC)
Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your
outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical
figure which and be pointed out by your finger.
Cicero
Roman author, orator, & politician (106 BC - 43 BC)
Imagination is more important than knowledge...
Albert Einstein
US (German-born) physicist (1879 - 1955)
Lady you bereft me of all words,
Only my blood speaks to you in my veins,
And there is such confusion in my powers.
William Shakespeare
Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)
decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of
instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their
sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
Socrates, In "Apology," sct. 21, by Plato.
Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC - 399 BC)
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll
become a philosopher.
Socrates
Greek philosopher in Athens (469 BC - 399 BC) |