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The Philosopher
«What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?»
Author: Desiderius Erasmus
(Editor, Humanist, Priest)
| Keywords:
cave, emerged, marvel, Plato, The Philosopher, The Shadows, various
«When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense»
Author: Edward Abbey
(Writer)
| About:
Arguments,
Philosophy
| Keywords:
attempting, complicated, opaque, philosopher, plainly, tedious, The Philosopher, true to
«The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful»
Author: Edward Gibbon
(Historian)
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magistrate, modes, prevailed, roman, Roman world, The Philosopher, various
«We all experience many freakish and unexpected events - you have to be open to suffering a little. The philosopher Schopenhauer talked about how out of the randomness, there is an apparent intention in the fate of an individual that can be glimpsed later on. When you are an old guy, you can look back, and maybe this rambling life has some through-line. Others can see it better sometimes. But when you glimpse it yourself, you see it more clearly than anyone»
Author: Viggo Mortensen
(Actor, Artist, Photographer, Writer)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
apparent, freakish, glimpse, glimpsed, intention, later on, look back, open to, ramble, ramble on, rambling, randomness, Schopenhauer, talked, The Philosopher, unexpected
«The teacher, like the artist and the philosopher, can perform his work adequately only if he feels himself to be an individual directed by an inner creative impulse, not dominated and fettered by an outside authority.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
adequately, Creative impulse, creative work, directed, Directed By, dominated, fetter, fettered, impulse, in fetters, only if, perform, philosopher, The Philosopher, The Teacher
«ZENITH, n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a growing cabbage. A man in bed or a cabbage in the pot is not considered as having a zenith, though from this view of the matter there was once a considerably dissent among the learned, some holding that the posture of the body was immaterial. These were called Horizontalists, their opponents, Verticalists. The Horizontalist heresy was finally extinguished by Xanobus, the philosopher-king of Abara, a zealous Verticalist. Entering an assembly of philosophers who were debating the matter, he cast a severed human head at the feet of his opponents and asked them to determine its zenith, explaining that its body was hanging by the heels outside. Observing that it was the head of their leader, the Horizontalists hastened to profess themselves converted to whatever opinion the Crown might be pleased to hold, and Horizontalism took its place among _fides defuncti_.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
considerably, converted, debating, dissenting opinion, hastened, head over heels, human foot, human head, immaterial, opponents, overhead, profess, severed, The Crown, The Philosopher, zenith
«To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
All days, friendly, holy day, holy man, profitable, saint, The Philosopher, The Saint