“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)
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.”
- Socrates
(via goddamnstoryofmylife)
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
moralitiesandthemoralrepublic:
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…
A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.
Socrates (via thuhrevival)
Wisdom is knowing that you know nothing at all
Socrates (via jazzthephilosopher)
(Source: jasthephilo)
And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
Plato (via paolodeseure)
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for
authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place
of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their
households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They
contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties
at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.
- Socrates 469-399 B.C.
Somethings never change, here’s to being young. (via smoothyouth)
Wisdom begins in wonder.
Socrates (via justaquotebook)
Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
Socrates, Philosopher (via t1noescobar)
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
Socrates (via philphys)
An unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates (via meelsgorawr)