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• 炎武

  2021-12-18
  I will not even allow myself to say that where one is added to one either the one to which it is added or the one that is added becomes two, or that the one added and the one to which it is added become two because of the addition of the one to the other.
• 炎武

  2021-12-18
  When I was a young man I was wonderfully keen on that wisdom which they call natural science, for I thought it splendid to know the causes of everything, why it comes to be, why it perishes and why it exists.
• 阿提斯

  2017-02-21
  Was Protagoras one of those omniscient people? Did he perhaps put this out as a riddle for the common crowd of us, while he revealed the Truth as a secret doctrine to his own pupils?
• 残酷天使的命题

  2017-01-24
  All that he knew, humbly, was how to reason and reflect, how to improve himself and (if they would follow him in behaving the same way) help others to improve themselves, by doing his best to make his own moral, practical opinions, and his life itself, rest on appropriately tested and examined reasons—not on social authority or the say-so of esteemed poets (or philosophers) or custom or any other kind of intellectual laziness.Actually knowledge of the truth on any of these matters requires a constant capacity to express and re-express it in relation to varying circumstances and needs and in response to new questions or challenges that may arise. Knowledge is a limitless ability to interpret and reinterpret itself—it cannot be set down exhaustively in any single set of formulas, for univer...
• 残酷天使的命题

  2017-01-20
  But, men of Athens, the good craftsmen seemed to me to have the same fault as the poets: each of them, because of his success at his craft, thought himself very wise in other most important pursuits, and this error of theirs overshadowed the wisdom they had, so that I asked myself, on behalf of the oracle, whether I should prefer to be as I am, with neither their wisdom nor their ignorance, or to have both. The answer I gave myself and the oracle was that it was to my advantage to be as I am (22d-e).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. And surely it is the mos...
• [已注销]

  2016-11-29
  This number, of course, is what we now call "time"
• [已注销]

  2015-01-25
  If I say that it is impossible for me to keep quiet because that means disobeying the god, you will not believe and will think I am being ironical. On the other hand, if I say that it is the greatest good for a man to discuss virtue every day and those other things about which you hear me conversing and testing myself and others, for the unexamined life is not worth living for men, you will believe me even less.
• [已注销]

  2015-01-25
  Be sure that this is what the god orders me to do, and I think there is no greater blessing for the city than my service to the god. For I go around doing nothing but persuading both young and old among you not to care for your body or your wealth in preference to or as strongly as for the best possible state of your soul, as I say to you: "Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
• [已注销]

  2015-01-25
  You are wrong, sir, if you think that a man who is any good at all should take into account the risk of life or death; he should look to this only in his actions, whether what he does is right or wrong, whether he is acting like a good or a bad man.
• 阿提斯

  2013-11-29
  Oh？Did we "arrive when the feast was over",as the saying goes? Are we late?
• 阿提斯

  2013-11-29
  This,they say, is how you are supposed to do your part in a war or a battle,Socrates
• 阿提斯

  2013-02-12
  For anyone who hears this, who is a true lover of wisdom,with the divine quality that makes him akin to it and worthy of pursuing it, thinks that he has heard of a marvelous request that he must at once enter upon with all earnestness, or life is not worth living; and from that time froth he pushes himself and urges on his leader without ceasing, until he has reached the end of the journey or has become capable of doing without a guide and finding the way himself.
• 阿提斯

  2013-03-06
  Socrates: Why have you come so early, Crito?Or is it not still early?Crito:It certainly is. Socrates: How early?Crito:Early dawn.Socrates: I am surprised that the warder was willing to listen to you.Crito: He is quite friendly to me by now, Socrates. I have been here often and I have given him something.Socrates:Have you just come, or have you been here for sometime?Crito:A fair time.Socrates: Then why did you not wake me right away but sit there in silence？
• [已注销]

  2015-01-25
  Now the hour to part has come. I go to die, you go to live. Which of us goes to the better lot is known to no one, except the god.