“Videri quam esse” (“To seem to be, rather than to be”)
I'm strange but i like to be a good strange, My name is Clarence, born in 1988, Pisces and I'm a student of Sociology and the child of the internet. I usually feel like my life has no meaning and i want to die but sometimes it seems like life is worth living for and i love everything in it. If it seems odd to read think what it might be like living it. I like reading philosophy, fiction and tech news.
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By the By it goes without saying you should make sure children don't read most of this.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Christianity is Platonism for the people.
Friedrich Nietzsche (via kafka-cockroach)
Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.
Plato (via zaraahmed)
Not expressly written as a violin concerto, Leonard Bernstein’s Seranade after Plato’s “Symposium” certainly comes off that way. The orchestration is meager, which allows the individual sections to show off and come through in the inherently transparent instrumentation. Bernstein’s creative use of those instruments deceives the ear though, and perhaps if one does not listen carefully, the listener might later think brass and woodwind instruments in addition to the actual strings, percussion and harp had been included.
The work is inspired by the philosopher’s famous dialogues, among the most treasured literary pieces in history, and subjectively exhibits that which is contained in the text. This recording is of Robert McDuffie on solo violin, with Leonard Slatkin and the St. Louis Symphony.
Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils — no, nor the human race, as I believe — and then only will this our State have a possibility of life and behold the light of day.
Plato (via philphys)
To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils.
Moralities and the Moral Republic: Plato on Government - Public and Internal Selves
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This is taken from Plato’s famous 7th Letter. It reveals his assessment of the government in his time and can be applied today.
The older I grew, reflecting upon the kind of men active in politics and the state of our laws and customs, the more I realized how difficult it is to rightly manage…
No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding ~ Plato quote
(Source: strayfacades)
It is only the dead who have seen the end of war
Plato (via songinaglass)
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
Plato (via dirtcrumbgoddess)
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And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
Plato (via paolodeseure)
Be kind, for everyone you
meet is fighting a hard battle.
Plato (via wherelifeissimple)
For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.
Plato (via inchoately)
Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
Plato (via pookersthedruid)