Pangle Quotes & Sayings

[I]t's necessary to exert very great foresight every time you go to blame or praise a man, so that you won't speak incorrectly ... For you shouldn't suppose that, while stones are sacred and pieces of wood, and birds, and snakes, human beings are not. Rather of all these things, the most sacred is the good human being, while the most polluted is the wicked.
Speech attributed to Socrates in Plato, Minos 319a, trans. Thomas L. Pangle, in The Roots of Political Philosophy: Ten Forgotten Socratic Dialogues, ed. Thomas L. Pangle (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987), 63. — Plato

You are often asked to explain your work, as if the reader isn't able to work it out. And people always try and label you by your work. — Sarah Hall

In order to honor God with your wealth, you first have to admit that you are rich. Most people won't do that. It's not normal. — Craig Groeschel

You cannot defect form an insight. You cannot unsee what you have seen. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Go forward, knowing that you are greater than the challenges of your time. — Leon Panetta

My journey deep into coma, outside this lowly physical realm and into the loftiest dwelling place of the almighty Creator, revealed the indescribably immense chasm between our human knowledge and the awe-inspiring realm of God. — Eben Alexander

There is no simple harmony between what is good for social or personal stability, for civic commitment and attachment, and what is good for genuine freedom of the mind. — Thomas L. Pangle

There's an opportunity for the pharmacist to play a much greater role in health care, especially with what we have going on in this country with the shortage of primary-care physicians. — Gregory Wasson