Socrates Quotes
We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.
Quotes to Explore
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Odd Future's like a network as opposed to like a rap group.
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I'm Greek. My body produces feta cheese.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
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Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
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Large organizations don't worship shareholders or customers, they worship the past. If it were otherwise, it wouldn't take a crisis to set a company on a new path.
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I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage.
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I am used to training 10 to 12 sessions a week, so I have the physical and mental endurance that comes with being an athlete.
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It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head.
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And all for love, and nothing for reward.
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It gives a different kind of high when, as an actor, I get to submit myself to the character I play.
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I've been in so many love triangles on TV and in real life.
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In French the truth of passion stood up coldly and cruelly to the scrutiny of human experience. In his own curious phrase he Pursewarden had always qualified it as 'an unsniggerable language'. (VIII)
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I do lots of weird voices and I kind of act out my raps. That's something that's always been in me.
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Is it the gods who set this fire in our hearts, or do we each make our fierce desire into a god?
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Your soul is a seeker, lover and artist; shape-shifting through archetypal energy, between your darkness and fields of light, your body and spirit, your heaven and hell, until you land in the moment of sweet surrender; when you, as a dancer, disappear into the dance.
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There is nothing that Nature has made necessary which is more easy than death; we are longer a-coming into the world than going out of it; and there is not any minute of our lives wherein we may not reasonably expect it. Nay, it is but a momen'ts work, the parting of soul and body. What a shame is it then to stand in fear of anything so long that is over so soon!
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We are in fact convinced that if we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself. It seems, to judge from the argument, that the wisdom which we desire and upon which we profess to have set our hearts will be attainable only when we are dead and not in our lifetime.
