"The student is half afraid to meet..." - Quote by C S Lewis
The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand him. But if he only knew, the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his modern commentator. The simplest student will be able to understand, if not all, yet a very great deal of what Plato said; but hardly anyone can understand some modern books on Platonism.
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“Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by words if any other medium is available.”
“The Opposite of Love is not hate, but power”
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“The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising the very goods of which fortune had deprived them; it was a secret to guard themselves against the degradation of poverty, it was a back way by which to arrive at that distinction which they could not gain by riches.”
“Everything proceeds from everything else and everything becomes everything, and everything can be turned into everything else.”
“What a piece of work is a man”
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“I failed my way to success.”
“To take what you know for what you know, and what you do not know for what you do not know, that is knowledge indeed.”