SOCRATES, ca. 469-399 B.C.EPIGRAMSCIENTIFIC literatureGREEK Anthology (Book)ANCIENT (Literary period)Book 14 of the Palatine Anthology comprises, alongside proper riddles and oracles, forty-five arithmetical epigrams. Long underrated as poetry, these deserve to be reappraised in ligh...
Featured in: Excellence Quotes 46. “Knowledge is our ultimate good.” — Socrates 47. “Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.” — Socrates 48. “I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.” — Socrates 49....
Socrates was the first person to question everything and everyone. Add to this that Socrates was perceived as also questioning the gods, and it is easy to see why the leaders of the time took offense.
121. “Smart people learn from everything and everyone. Average people from their experiences. Stupid people already have all the answers.”— Socrates 122. “I call myself a peaceful warrior because the battles we fight are on the inside.”— Socrates 123. “The value of a man is measure...
Bobb quotes Oliver Wendell Holmes, “Humility is the first of the virtues for other people.” How true! The question is: Will Americans re-learn the virtuous power and strength of humility, or will humility continue to erode, mistaken by many as a weakness?
Then every Athenian improves and elevates them; all with the exception of myself; and I alone am their corrupter? Is that what you affirm? That is what I stoutly affirm. This is certainly a most unfortunate quality who have detected in me. But suppose I ask you a question: Take the ...
The main contributions of Heraclitus center on the theory of fire as the fundamental element, the mobility of the universe, duality and opposition, and the principle of causality. According to him, everything has a cause, but not everything has the same cause. He also developed the theory of...
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear. — Thomas Jefferson The rank is but the ...
The range of national security threats is staggeringly broad. We work every day to adapt and improve our approaches to address the dangers posed by ISIL, Al Qaeda, AQAP and other terrorist groups; the threats posed by foreign terrorist fighters intent on waging Jihad abroad; and the threat of...
however, falling short of what the moral law requires was a much more serious matter than, say, failing to do the household budgets correctly. This distinction between the moral and the nonmoral realms now affects every question in Western ethics, including the way the questions themselves are ...