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Eloquence may set fire to reason.
Eloquence may set fire to reason.
This is our chief bane, that we live not according to the light
of reason, but after the fashion read more
This is our chief bane, that we live not according to the light
of reason, but after the fashion of others.
[Lat., Id nobis maxime nocet, quod non ad rationis lumen sed ad
similitudinem aliorum vivimus.]
Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.
Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic.
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear
the better reason.
[Lat., Nam et Socrati objiciunt read more
For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear
the better reason.
[Lat., Nam et Socrati objiciunt comici, docere eum quomodo
pejorem causam meliorem faciat.]
Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.
Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that
his reason is weak.
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that
his reason is weak.
Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule . . . as making the
worse appear the better reason.
Aristophanes turns Socrates into ridicule . . . as making the
worse appear the better reason.
There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly read more
There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be.