More Quotes
Nope, haven't turned my senior quotes in yet. But before I give more of them, I suppose i should give some semblence of a LJ.
Homecoming was a lot of fun. No, I can't dance but that didn't stop me.
For that reason, I said, good men are unwilling to rule, either for money's sake or for honor. They have no wish to be called mercenary for demanding to be paid, or thieves for making a secrect profit out of their office; nor yet will honors tempt them for they are not ambitious.
Plato, The Republic
Man being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much, and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature: Beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.
Francis Bacon, Novum Oragnum
Few persons care to study logic, because everybody conceives himself to be proficient enough in the art of reasoning already. But I observe that this satisfaction is limited to one's own ratiocination, and does not extend to other men.
Charles S. Peirce, The Fixation of Belief
Man is nothing else than his plan; he exists only to the extent that he fulfills himself; he is, therefore, nothing else than the ensemble of his acts, nothing else than his life.
Jean-Paul Sarte, Existentialism
Homecoming was a lot of fun. No, I can't dance but that didn't stop me.
For that reason, I said, good men are unwilling to rule, either for money's sake or for honor. They have no wish to be called mercenary for demanding to be paid, or thieves for making a secrect profit out of their office; nor yet will honors tempt them for they are not ambitious.
Plato, The Republic
Man being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much, and so much only as he has observed in fact or in thought of the course of nature: Beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.
Francis Bacon, Novum Oragnum
Few persons care to study logic, because everybody conceives himself to be proficient enough in the art of reasoning already. But I observe that this satisfaction is limited to one's own ratiocination, and does not extend to other men.
Charles S. Peirce, The Fixation of Belief
Man is nothing else than his plan; he exists only to the extent that he fulfills himself; he is, therefore, nothing else than the ensemble of his acts, nothing else than his life.
Jean-Paul Sarte, Existentialism