Platonist Ethics Quotes & Sayings

When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago. — Ha-Joon Chang

I wonder now about Demeter and Persephone. Maybe Persephone was glad to run off with the king of death to his underground realm, maybe it was the only way she could break away from her mother, maybe Demeter was a bad parent the way Lear was a bad parent, denying nature, including the nature of children to leave their parents. Maybe Persephone thought Hades was the infinitely cool older man who held the knowledge she sought, maybe she loved the darkness, the six months of winter, the sharp taste of pomegranates, the freedom from her mother, maybe she knew that to be truly alive death had to be part of the picture just as winter must. It was as the queen of hell that she became an adult and came into power. Hades's realm is called the underworld, and so are the urban realms of everything outside the law. And as in Hopi creation myths, where humans and other beings emerge from underground, so it's from the underground that culture emerges in this civilization. — Rebecca Solnit

He can't even be at a casual read and not be creating the whole thing in his mind. I remember feeling very awed about how much he still seems to be so in love with it, and so dedicated to making everything really real and really spontaneous. — Amanda Peet

Stop using your phones and laptops as toys and use them to start a revolution. — Van Jones

The key to Operations at Wal-Mart is their ability to maintain the highest standards while at the same time getting things done with lockstep execution. — Michael Bergdahl

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written, that's all. — Walter Moers

Twelve is the border between childhood and old. — Lindsay Eagar

Be kind to your future self, and your future will be kind to you. — Liliana Kohann

I have been no more than a medium, as it were. — Henri Matisse

Happiness is not freedom. You may become happy tomorrow; but I assure you, your happiness will be smashed by the pains of your body as you age, by the all-encompassing death that swallows up everything and everyone in this world. — Frederick Lenz

Quote from CARE OF THE SOUL ... Thomas Moore ... to the soul, the most minute details and the most ordinary activities, carried out with mindfullness and art, have an effect far beyond their apparant insignificance. — Thomas Moore

Conflict connects us to life, just as life connects us to conflict. — Bryant McGill

The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done. — George MacDonald

Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older. — Max Muller

Why haven't you kicked my ass yet?" I ask quietly.

"Do you love her?" he shoots back.

I answer without hesitation. "With everything I am."

"That's why. — Tamsyn Bester