The Great Quotes thread

[Vicus]

Fall in love!...

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=eOU0JhkHY3w

[Raskolnikov]

[Raskolnikov]

Posted by Vicus (here)

Best 1 liner from Plato !

That's hilarious Vicus. Here's a bit more on Plato's pride from Lives of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius...

Anthisthenes used to taunt Plato with being conceited. At all events when in a procession he spied a spirited charger he said, turning to Plato, "It seems to me that you would have made just such a proud, showy steed." And one day he visited Plato, who was ill, and seeing the basin into which Plato had vomited, remarked, "The bile I see, but not the pride."

He was ridiculed by the Comic poets-

Theopompus in his Hedychares says: "There is not anything that is truly one, even the number two is scarcely one, according to Plato."

Alexis in the Meropis: "You have come in the nick of time. For I am at my wits’ end and walking up and down, like Plato, and yet have discovered no wise plan but only tired my legs."

And in the Ancylion: "You don’t know what you are talking about; run about with Plato, and you’ll know all about soap and onions."

Amphis, too, in the Amphicrates says: "And as for the good, whatever that be, that you are likely to get on her account, I know no more about it, master, than I do of the good of Plato."

And in the Dexidemides: "O Plato, all you know is how to frown with eyebrows lifted high like any snail."

Aristotle seceded from the Academy while Plato was still alive. Hence the remark attributed to the latter: "Aristotle spurns me, as colts kick out at the mother who bore them."

They say that, on hearing Plato read the Lysis, Socrates exclaimed, "By Heracles, what a number of lies this young man is telling about me!"

Diogenes was eating dried figs when he encountered Plato and offered him a share of them. When Plato took them and ate them, he said, "I said you might share them, not that you might eat them all up."
And one day when Plato had invited to his house friends coming from Dionysius, Diogenes trampled upon his carpets and said, "I trample upon Plato’s vainglory." Plato’s reply was, "How much pride you expose to view, Diogenes, by seeming not to be proud." Others tell us that what Diogenes said was, "I trample upon the pride of Plato," who retorted, "Yes, Diogenes, with pride of another sort." Sotion, however, in his fourth book makes the Cynic address this remark to Plato himself. Diogenes once asked him for wine, and after that also for some dried figs; and Plato sent him a whole jar full. Then the other said, "If some one asks you how many two and two are, will you answer, Twenty? So, it seems, you neither give as you are asked nor answer as you are questioned." Thus he scoffed at him as one who talked without end.

[Vicus]

Hilarious ,yes

But the old men comments are sad for me...Plato this and that,yada,yada,yeah...

They are typical sign of envy/jealousy for a young stud who dares to have a brain too! how dare you!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plato%...n_the_Republic

Same prejudices about gorgeous woman (no brain)

I'm a mature man and when I witness young men in that perspective i can only smug because is their time to do so,they should enjoy themself, on the contrary a young man acting/feeling like an older is just sad...

There is a time for everything and is OK,other way is sad or fake.

Raskolnikof:
sorry , I cant see your first post, I know it have something to do with my browser ,but I'm too lazy now to check out...

[Raskolnikov]

Yes Vicus, I thought the same thing while I posted that. I laughed thinking, "f'ing philosophers back then were a bunch of cackling hens and chatty Cathys, cutting each other down for the clothes they wore or the company they kept," not much has changed eh? I do find Socrates' comment funny considering he's Plato's most famous subject...

[kfm27917]

A will finds a way.

Orison Swett Marde

[Raskolnikov]

[Kryztian]

“When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.”

― Lin Yutang

[Johnnycomelately]

Came across something today that stood out, reading comments on a post by YT chan Kyle Rittenhouse, who was aquitted of shooting attacking rioters in the “mostly peaceful riot” days.

Quote in mind is emphasized in [b]+ in the last paragraph of my response to Matt (yeah me, a “liminal” one, gets me trying new things). I wonder what you folks make of it.

@mattds846
2 hours ago

Kyle align your views with donut operator & Brandon hererra, thats the goat train you wanna catch mate.


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@johnnyliminal8032
0 seconds ago

I like most of Herrerra’s vids, but not the one where he hosted Kyle. BH spoke the f-word often, and Kyle seemed pressured in his attempt to keep up. Seemed like a frat/manhood initiation hazing. BH plays with fire all the time, figuratively too.

Have seen Donut Operator a few times, seems OK, dunno.

As much as trustworthy confidents are always the better choice, more important is to learn from past poor choices. Mistakes are gifts from Heaven, the first time or few. “Blows of fate” are like the smoke alarms going off, after you ignored the oven alarm for too long lol.

[Raskolnikov]

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[Bill Ryan]

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.

Herodotus (484—425 BC)

[HopSan]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.

Herodotus (484—425 BC)

I have seen this from near. Priam is a happy boy compared to some other fathers.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=saRRU9lRQlE

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by HopSan (here)

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.

Herodotus (484—425 BC)

I have seen this from near. Priam is a happy boy compared to some other fathers.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=saRRU9lRQlE

Thank you... a most wonderful, moving scene, supremely acted by Peter O'Toole as King Priam in the 2004 movie Troy. Shakespeare would have been proud.

Achilles, exceptionally well played by Brad Pitt, had just killed Priam's son Hector in battle. Priam begs for his body to be returned to him so that he can be properly honored. Achilles' closing words in the scene are: "You're a far better King than the one leading this army."

The film, which I'd recommend to anyone studying modern geopolitical conflict, is all about principle, respect, courage, and honor. There are many leaders today who might do well to learn from it.

[Raskolnikov]

Thanks guys. Guess I've got a movie to watch...

[grapevine]

"Today we have technology to hack human beings on a massive scale"
- Yuval Noah Harari

See more . . .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1kL...=GMSUNIVERSAL2 video

Read more . . ./
https://simonmercieca.com/2022/11/07...transhumanism/

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Miller (here)
"Today we have technology to hack human beings on a massive scale"
- Yuval Noah Harari

The human mind has no firewall.

Dr. Robert Duncan, ex-CIA mind control researcher

[kfm27917]

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